Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing. — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure. — Joseph Scheidler Copy Share Image
Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conversation with someone--the pleasure is in the… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
Our favourite restaurants, cafes and eateries put a lot of thought into what they do, mostly for our pleasure. Perhaps we should… — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's really, really eclectic. It's not a business book [Girlboss], but it's still a book that should make you want to get… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I love this idea," Bruno says. "Of being broken but finding pleasure in it.” — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Pleasure isn't only in getting praised, its even more in praising others. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I can't begin to tell you what a pleasure it was to work with Vikram. He is such a brilliant actor and… — Abhimanyu Singh Copy Share Image
Don't ever turn down pleasure because you were afraid of what other people might say. — Belle de Jour Copy Share Image
Food can offer a moment of pure emotional pleasure in an otherwise hard and difficult world. — Antoni Porowski Copy Share Image
The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures — Democritus Copy Share Image
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is no longer empty and pain is no longer deadly when God is the transcending reason for all of it.” — Sara Daigle Copy Share Image
I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture. — Bernard Rudofsky Copy Share Image
Having sex with you was more then a pleasure...being loved by you was more then a punishment — Shubham Joshi Copy Share Image