Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures. — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
“The ego is the cancer of the soul. It feeds on the pleasures of the reputation.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
“Prove - and an easy task it is - that so-called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments...” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Challenges will come; that is inevitable. But they can’t easily destroy your future than your own appetite.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures of reading Tom Wolfe - of still reading Tom Wolfe - is the sense of awe he… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of… — William Temple Copy Share Image
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains. — Swami Brahmananda Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book,… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The satisfaction earned by the striving can be whatever furnishes the strongest incentive to the child, for example, extra pleasures or possessions… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our… — Michael Huffington Copy Share Image
In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“As the long limousine purred to life Edwina felt as if she were Elizabeth, setting sail to battle the Spanish Armada. She… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
“The characteristic of Pains and Pleasures is that they are unmistakably real, and therefore, as far as they go, give the man… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Before you came to live with us, our lives were as always, and we were happy. We worked, we ate, and then… — Robert Murphy Copy Share Image
“This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“Why do you weep, child? We of the Floating World live only for the moment, giving all our time to the pleasures… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have gelded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
