“To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
The memory of us as one, I'm going to live well somehow. If it's because I loved you too much..3rd April 1986.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world."… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the mulch pile is incomprehensible. I wouldn't care if they just hauled the mulch to the landfill somewhere. Obviously,… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Turning to the crimson pavilion, beneath the filters of its carved lattices, illumination baffles sleep. Why does the moon bear grudge as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
“The point is that a pleasure which leaves you satisfied stops being a pleasure the moment it has been enjoyed. You are… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises. — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie. — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. — Democritus Copy Share Image
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure. — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things? — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us. — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
