The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
~By Arthur Helps ~
The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
~By William Ames ~
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
~By William Wycherley ~
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.
~By Adam Arkin ~
It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
~By Voltaire ~
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
~By Doris Lessing ~
I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.
~By David Hyde Pierce ~
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
~By William Temple ~
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
~By Richard Steele ~
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
~By Margaret Drabble ~
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
~By Michael Korda ~
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
~By George P. Baker ~
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
~By Anne Spencer ~
To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.
~By Charles Buxton ~
Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
~By Kate Smith ~
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
~By Balthus ~
We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.
~By Robertson Davies ~
It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
~By William Congreve ~
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.
~By George F. Kennan ~
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.
~By Mick Taylor ~
When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
~By Sophocles ~
Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
~By Karolina Kurkova ~
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
~By Alexander Smith ~
Work is both my living and my pleasure.
~By Harlan Howard ~
Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
~By Vernon Lee ~
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
~By Rene Descartes ~
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.
~By Anne Bancroft ~
We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.
~By John Thorn ~
Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
~By John Ray ~
Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.
~By Timothy Olyphant ~
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
~By Horace Walpole ~
It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
~By Marge Piercy ~
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
~By Gore Vidal ~
I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
~By Barry Sanders ~
What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
~By Charles Dickens ~
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
~By Nancy Mitford ~
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
~By David McCullough ~
Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.
~By Robert James Graves ~
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
~By Camille Paglia ~
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
~By Jay Roach ~
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
~By Jack Cade ~
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
~By Aphra Behn ~
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
~By Eric Liddell ~
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
~By Euripides ~
If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.
~By Lydia Lunch ~
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
~By Katherine Mansfield ~
Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.
~By Alex Cox ~
I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.
~By Jerry Wexler ~
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
~By Nancy Banks Smith ~
Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
~By Mary Richards ~
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.
~By Jane Asher ~
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
~By David Attenborough ~
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.
~By Johann Arndt ~
I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
~By Jane Smiley ~
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
~By Aaron Burr ~
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
~By Norman Spinrad ~
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
~By Norman Lear ~
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
~By Marina Warner ~
It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
~By Voltaire ~
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
~By William Shenstone ~
This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.
~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
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