Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.
~By Donald Norman ~
I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.
~By John Dyer ~
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
~By David Attenborough ~
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
~By David Brainerd ~
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.
~By Bell Hooks ~
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
~By Abraham Clark ~
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 ~
It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
~By Frank Moore Colby ~
When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
~By Jason Alexander ~
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
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 ~
Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.
~By Alex Cox ~
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
~By George Byron ~
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
~By Thomas de Quincey ~
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 ~
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 ~
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
~By Gary L. Francione ~
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
~By Aristotle ~
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 ~
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
~By Anne Rice ~
We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.
~By Carly Simon ~
I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?
~By Jim Garrison ~
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
~By David Foster Wallace ~
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
~By Sophocles ~
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
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 ~
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
~By Voltaire ~
The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.
~By Jonathan Franzen ~
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
~By Ethel Barrymore ~
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.
~By Jean Alesi ~
One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.
~By Joseph Epstein ~
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
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 ~
Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.
~By Danny Elfman ~
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 ~
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
~By Pierre Bonnard ~
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.
~By Sonya Levien ~
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
~By Stendhal ~
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
~By Helen Rowland ~
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
~By Marcel Achard ~
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
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 ~
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
~By George A. Sheehan ~
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.
~By Simon Callow ~
I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.
~By Kamal Ahmed ~
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
~By Marina Warner ~
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
~By Marquis de Sade ~
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
~By Luigi Barzini ~
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
~By Democritus ~
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
~By William Wycherley ~
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
~By Russell Baker ~
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
~By Kenko Yoshida ~
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
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 ~
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
~By John Dryden ~
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
~By John Rawls ~
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.
~By Gena Rowlands ~
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
~By Anacharsis ~
Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
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 ~
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
~By Tony Benn ~
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
~By Fred Rogers ~
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 ~
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
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 ~
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
~By George Orwell ~
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
~By Elias Canetti ~
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
~By Ovid ~
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
~By Moliere ~
It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.
~By Don Cornelius ~
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 ~
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 ~
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
~By William Congreve ~
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 ~
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