What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success. — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
He is like the rest of his clan, a painful sort of beauty that seems detached and cold — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures. — Elisabeth Leamy Copy Share Image
It is a fact that God wants to destroy every work of our flesh, but He never desires to destroy our personality.… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're… — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“I want to learn his body, find every pleasure it’s hiding. All this reverence and simple awe I feel when I touch… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants. — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
I know whether or not I am confused most readily by noticing--being mindful of--my capacity for feeling caring concern. ... when I… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
God has revealed to me that only the Paramatman, whom the Vedas describe as the Pure Soul, is as immutable as Mount… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general… — Nikolay Chernyshevsky Copy Share Image
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy. — Juvenal 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
“A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure.” — Leo Tolstoy 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
If I die one day the only possible reason must be a really powerful orgasm:-p — Svetlana Shchedrina Copy Share Image
This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure. — Pema Chodron 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
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
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
...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
