I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet. — George Benson Copy Share Image
In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure. — Dawn French Copy Share Image
In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully. — Danielle Cormack Copy Share Image
If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her. — Horace Copy Share Image
If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Celebrities have a way of touching our lives. Perhaps we are influenced by their screen image, or perhaps by their acquired status.… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
I still sing, but completely for my own pleasure. I play a nightclub singer in 'Sparkle,' but I'd like to pursue it… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by… — Abd-ar-Rahman III Copy Share Image
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Being mine means I'll make sure you know what pleasure feels like not just in your body, but in your heart and… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part. — Bernard Bolzano Copy Share Image
I'm not kidding - once you discover the pleasure of giving, how gratifying and satisfying it is, it becomes addictive. — Haim Saban Copy Share Image
Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Theres a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the… — 50 Shdes Of Grey Copy Share Image
Gratification comes from contributing what you want to contribute without looking to see what others contribute or not. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
“The guilty pleasure defense. In my view if it’s guilty, it ain’t pleasure.” — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“When a woman is romantically subdued, all she does at that moment is under the influence of her desires.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. — John Milton Copy Share Image
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
