Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I could bring you so much pleasure, erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege. — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries! — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another!… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he only who knows how to accommodate himself to their returns,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual… — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
We shouldn't confuse the pleasure of being articulate about wine, of being able to describe the distinctive features of a wine, with… — Kent Bach Copy Share Image
Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has… — Augustus Copy Share Image
I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well, since we will have… — David Berg Copy Share Image
We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an… — Mameve Medwed Copy Share Image
Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It's… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
I'm an early 1990's baby, so I had the pleasure of going through a lot of eras in music. — DaBaby Copy Share Image
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure. — Cecil Balmond Copy Share Image
Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. — Isabelle Adjani Copy Share Image
No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure. — John Milton Copy Share Image
