Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My guilty pleasure is Simon & Garfunkel. I'm embarrassed about it. They're dorky. — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
Thanks be to God, the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it,… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
“Was I happy? Maybe more content than bouncing-off-the-sofa-like-Tom-Cruise-ecstatic, but that’s still happy isn’t it?” — Lindsey Kelk Copy Share Image
The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's tribulation: not because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground;… — Li Ka-shing Copy Share Image
You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch,… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Thouqh they never believe I could do it all alone...,throuqh the silent night_Sleepless moment_Hectic day_Occupied week...It's a pleasure God got my back. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In today's world, when many of yesterday's fashionable habits are today's misdemeanors, we should rejoice that a chocolate dessert can bring so… — Marcel Desaulniers Copy Share Image
Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Love is a form of pleasure. Pleasure is caused by the release of endorphins. The things we believe make a person attractive… — Shana Norris Copy Share Image
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In… — Ivana Trump Copy Share Image
Meadowlark Lemon's book Trust Your Next Shot is written by a remarkable person. I have had the pleasure of knowing Meadowlark for… — Lenny Wilkens Copy Share Image
The argument is not between adding features and simplicity, between adding capability and usability. The real issue is about design: designing things… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
