I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird. — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“You can only derive pleasure from work when it is in the sphere of your calling” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It's not really a guilty pleasure, but I love old cartoons. I could watch Bugs Bunny and Tweety all day long. — Robbie Amell Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Invitation to Dance- It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we’ll dance anyway, you and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
'Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord' means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society. — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
