In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation. ~By Robert South ~
Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court. ~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! ~By Joseph Addison ~
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. ~By Jacques Barzun ~
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest. ~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! ~By Charles Dickens ~
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust. ~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 ~
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. ~By Brian Lumley ~
How delicious is pleasure after torment! ~By Pierre Corneille ~
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 ~
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. ~By Victor Hugo ~
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them. ~By Lester B. Pearson ~
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. ~By Charles Baudelaire ~
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 ~
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone. ~By Florida Scott-Maxwell ~
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness. ~By Terry Riley ~
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow. ~By Annie Smith Peck ~
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. ~By B. C. Forbes ~
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~By Oscar Wilde ~
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. ~By Josh Billings ~
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. ~By Marcel Proust ~
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication. ~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided. ~By Leo Ornstein ~
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 ~
Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. ~By Douglas Hurd ~
If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. ~By Donald Trump ~
One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written. ~By Nora Roberts ~
I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself? ~By John Belushi ~
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. ~By Marcel Proust ~
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing. ~By Stephen Greenblatt ~
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise. ~By Moliere ~
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond. ~By Titus Livius ~
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. ~By Mortimer Adler ~
To make pleasures pleasant shortens them. ~By Charles Buxton ~
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long. ~By Shawn Colvin ~
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation. ~By Frances Burney ~
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading. ~By Vernon Lee ~
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found. ~By Moliere ~
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure. ~By Frances Burney ~
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors. ~By Tony Robbins ~
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. ~By Lord Byron ~
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. ~By James Russell Lowell ~
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 ~
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness. ~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. ~By William Styron ~
Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others. ~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure. ~By Mason Cooley ~
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. ~By Lord Chesterfield ~
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. ~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible. ~By William Feather ~
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. ~By Muhammad Ali ~
At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in. ~By Brooke Shields ~
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. ~By Saint Augustine ~
This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music. ~By Victoria de los Angeles ~
I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky. ~By Jeanne Calment ~
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals. ~By Martin Sheen ~
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 ~
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. ~By Italo Calvino ~
The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off. ~By Joseph Epstein ~
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. ~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong. ~By Vita Sackville-West ~
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself. ~By Shane MacGowan ~
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. ~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn. ~By Albert Hofmann ~
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure. ~By Carl Clinton Van Doren ~
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. ~By Ian Hamilton Finlay ~
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. ~By Tryon Edwards ~
Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand. ~By Donald Norman ~
In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement. ~By Heather Donahue ~
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. ~By Denis Diderot ~
This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied. ~By Gustave Moreau ~
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices. ~By Frederick II ~
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart. ~By Jean Baudrillard ~
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? ~By Virginia Woolf ~
Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. ~By Thomas Harris ~
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ~By Aldous Huxley ~
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. ~By Pablo Picasso ~
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. ~By Jean Paul ~
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. ~By Frank Howard Clark ~
Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives. ~By John Zimmerman ~
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. ~By Pierre Corneille ~
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. ~By Kate DiCamillo ~
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. ~By H. L. Mencken ~
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. ~By Margaret Fuller ~
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. ~By Charles Baudelaire ~
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. ~By Michael Faraday ~
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. ~By Salvador Dali ~
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. ~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. ~By DeWitt Clinton ~
Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies. ~By Chad Lowe ~
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. ~By Hugo Black ~
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. ~By George Byron ~
People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet. ~By Alain Prost ~
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ~By Walter Bagehot ~
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ~By Bertrand Russell ~
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