We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
just because something is fun doesn't mean it's a waste of time. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be good to forget everything even if it's just for tonight? Indulge in pleasure... breathe a sweet poison deep into… — SebastiAn Copy Share Image
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!” — Anthony Marais Copy Share Image
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer. — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
“There's nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower," he said to himself. "They certainly do cheer you up.” — Charmian Hussey Copy Share Image
“The simple rule to abide by and become excellent is that “Don’t see what you have achieved yesterday with the same pleasure… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I use drugs to work. I never use them to escape or for pleasure. When you turn to drugs, all you're doing… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
My golden retriever, Callie, is so easy to please. She finds great pleasure in our day-to-day routine, which helps me to enjoy… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to… — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Hazael rose from his knees. It had to take extraordinary effort, yet somehow he managed a version of his lazy smile when… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Last, we may suppose that it gave pleasure both to relate and to hear wonderful stories, because such is human nature; and… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
A woman recently told me a story about her descent into chronic fatigue. She was sleeping sixteen, eighteen hours a day, and… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
