The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
One of life's most simple pleasures is spending time with those we love... — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
“He's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself —… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
There comes a time when you should stop trying to please everyone and just focus on pleasing yourself. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
What I did was not for sexual pleasure. Rather it brought me some peace of mind. — Andrei Chikatilo Copy Share Image
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Sex itself only only exists in relation to procreation. That's one of the reasons why I sometimes object, and it's just a… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
What’s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“He was looking forward to his visit not only for the pleasure of the shrewd dealing which far transcended mere gross profit,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Because dying for God is a higher pleasure... than living without Him. — Noah Weinberg Copy Share Image
