The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough. — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams? — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.] — Quintilian Copy Share Image
WHEN YOU HAVE SEX ITS YOUR FIRST TIME IT HURT BUT THEN ITS ALL PLEASURE BEYACH!!! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So why do you kiss someone?" she asks. "To give pleasure or to take it?” — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business. — Tommy Henrich Copy Share Image
Every time I come home, it is the same great pleasure to lie down in my bed. That's when I think, 'home… — Sigrid Agren Copy Share Image
Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
To go about your work with pleasure, to greet others with a word of encouragement, to be happy in the present and… — Edwin Osgood Grover Copy Share Image
In my several years of international cricket, Tendulkar remains the best batsman I have ever bowled to. It's been a pleasure to… — Allan Donald Copy Share Image
These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Mimi was massaging Salander's back and neck. She had been kneading intently for 20 minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He,… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The most important thing is you can't write what you wouldn't read for pleasure. It's a mistake to analyze the market thinking… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering."… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image