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
The pleasures that we seek are not happiness at its peak, for it is contentment that gives true fulfillment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up,… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears. — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity… — Chris Brogan Copy Share Image
Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no… — Homer Copy Share Image
The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Pounding fragrant things - particularly garlic, basil, parsley - is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries,… — Patience Gray Copy Share Image
Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC. — Walter O'Brien Copy Share Image
I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird. — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
