All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired. — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality. — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports. — Yanni Copy Share Image
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the… — Eric Allman Copy Share Image
You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“When he [Malevranche] happened to find Descartes' book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques, he leafed through… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“You're rather good at this, aren't you?" And she didn't just mean his reading of Gerrard. Vane's grin converted to a rakish… — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also… — Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
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