Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Playing in the Champions League ought to be a pleasure and a joy. — Massimiliano Allegri Copy Share Image
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure… — Edouard Rene de Laboulaye Copy Share Image
Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home. — John Howard Payne Copy Share Image
Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants. — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're… — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“I want to learn his body, find every pleasure it’s hiding. All this reverence and simple awe I feel when I touch… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
What a pleasure to have children in Heaven and to watch them grow and develop without the Devil and all his imps… — David Berg Copy Share Image
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service. Shut up. Thank you. Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
... store of bees, in a dry and warme bee-house, comely made of fir boards, to sing, and sit, and feede upon… — William Lawson Copy Share Image
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I like actors who just become that person and then react, and Adam [Driver] is completely reactive in that way. So every… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Godly people... nobly endure hard things. They know that their existence is meaningful and that they are destined for unlimited pleasure at… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
God...made childhood joyous, full of life, bubbling over with laughter, playful, bright and sunny. We should put into their childhood days just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image