The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that. — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
There is nothing like laughter, and the sharing of pleasure, to build up a friendship made to be treasured. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes. — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Never forget, that in pain lies gain; if we want early pleasure, we'll miss later treasure. Don't forget. Work hard!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Toby Tyrrell unravels the various formulations of Gaia and explains how recent scientific developments bring the hypothesis into question. His criticisms are… — Francisco J. Ayala Copy Share Image
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
…there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I guess I still feel that way and yet I'm slightly hesitant to insist on that idea, that it "better be fun… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
![“[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and…” quote by John Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac9/john-adams-529_ability_d-emocracy-will-soon-degenerate-into-an_1146087.jpg)
