“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“What was an unexpected pleasure yesterday is what we feel entitled to today, and what won't be enough tomorrow.” — Michael Easter Copy Share Image
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
It is so exhilarating to realize that this is all here for our expansion and for our pleasure. — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply.… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body.… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
I think you have to have your own expectations of yourself and your own sense of purpose and your own intrinsic pleasure… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
“Not untill all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. But in a totalitarian future… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life. — Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian Copy Share Image
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“It was good for her though, to submit to things that weren’t for her pleasure, but his.” — Annabel Joseph Copy Share Image
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Baby, if you let me take you out of here, I’ll give the word pleasure a whole new meaning." - Drew Evans” — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices. — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea,… — Kapka Kassabova Copy Share Image
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
