One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness. — Walter Hilton Copy Share Image
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating? — Horace Copy Share Image
For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure. — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
I’m at the stage in life where I get a lot of pleasure out of finding a cheap stock, — Irving Kahn Copy Share Image
“A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in… — Valerie Worth Copy Share Image
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
India is an incredibly vibrant market, which Virgin already, through Virgin Atlantic, has the pleasure of working in. I am delighted that… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships… — James W. Prescott Copy Share Image
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Yeah. I don't know why. I just love seeing… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights? — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If I die one day the only possible reason must be a really powerful orgasm:-p — Svetlana Shchedrina Copy Share Image
You can't mix business with pleasure. Unless you're a whore cause then your business is pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Live your best life! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
If a double-decker bus Crashes into us To die by your side... The pleasure - the privilege is mine. — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure? — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I am the man that could pleasure you to hell and back and show you paradise along the way.” — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
