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
To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. — Jane Rule 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
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment,… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
The level at which my OCD enters my writing process isn't that I slap the keyboard - it's more along the lines… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure.… — Phil Dusenberry Copy Share Image
Art devoid of danger lacks many other things as well: pleasure, beauty, and the ability to save us. Poems that divest the… — James Allen Hall Copy Share Image
I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from… — Naturi Naughton Copy Share Image
A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the path… — John Piper Copy Share Image
My personal attitude is this: I will stand for revival, unity and prayer; I will labor to restore healing and reconciliation between… — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Sir: It gives me pleasure to report to you the fine bearing and soldierly conduct of Captain Wilson and his men whilst… — John Taylor Wood Copy Share Image
We usually do pay attention to our outer appearance, typically noticing whatever part of our bodies we are unhappy about. It behooves… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
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
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
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy. — Juvenal 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
He is like the rest of his clan, a painful sort of beauty that seems detached and cold — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's important to take pleasure from the smallest thing. You never know what live will bring.” — Mette Barfelt Copy Share Image
I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image