“Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true pleasure is that for which they give up another.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love. — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
“The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards.… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“We don’t know yet if this girl is going to have sex tonight or not?” “She will for sure. I can smell… — Rebecca Harlem Copy Share Image
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I used to think aged Scotch, expensive pool tables, and one-night stands were the height of pleasure. Then, my greatest guilty pleasure… — Lauren Blakely Copy Share Image
The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life.… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You on your way out?" Jace nodded. "Dont want to overstay our welcome." "What welcome?" Magnus asked. "I'd say is was a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
What Hollywood has done through the years is glamorized it even more, made it sexy, made it sensuous, and dwelled on those… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Possibly the best thing about the whole experience is that Kang and I are now really good friends. It's as much of… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings,… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms,… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure? — Confucius Copy Share Image
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity. — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure. — John Piper Copy Share Image
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