“I can understand the ignorant masses loving to soak themselves in drink—oh, yes, it's very shocking that they should, of course—very shocking… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters,… — Cass Gilbert Copy Share Image
Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“Expectations ruin the pleasures of life. To overcome every bad and appreciate every good, consider every day your last and take no… — Nael Gharzeddine Copy Share Image
“If there is a state where the soul can find a resting-place secure enough to establish itself and concentrate its entire being… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“...half the pleasures of life [are] derived from the little struggles and small privations that one had to endure at the beginning… — George and Weedon Grossmith Copy Share Image
If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
“I will not subscribe to the argument that ornament increases the pleasure of the life of a cultivated person, or the argument… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Let us be greedy together; let us hoard. Let us hit each other with birch branches and lock each other in dungeons;… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“This classmate told me that Plato drove this idea home in his dialogue Euthydemus , in which Socrates puts down the Sophists,… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
“It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image