“But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit.” — Brian Castro Copy Share Image
Hey, that's fantastic, Lois! And I'll pleasure myself to your photos. — Peter Griffin Copy Share Image
“the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together” — John Green Copy Share Image
“She longed for him to take her, to use her. Anything she could do to bring him pleasure. Anything to bring him… — Skye Warren Copy Share Image
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame — John Adams Copy Share Image
Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else. — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you… — Homer Copy Share Image
The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that… — Derek Tangye Copy Share Image
The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Even when a person suffers pain in consequence of a thorn having entered into his hand, although it is at once drawn… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed… — William Melmoth Copy Share Image
