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 ~
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 ~
It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot.
~By Michael Kennedy ~
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
~By Mary Wilson Little ~
The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
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 ~
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
~By Sophocles ~
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 ~
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
~By Lord Byron ~
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~
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 ~
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
~By Abraham Clark ~
I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
~By Annie Dillard ~
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
~By Georges Bataille ~
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
~By Truman Capote ~
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 ~
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 ~
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
~By James Joyce ~
If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.
~By Christopher Lambert ~
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
~By Victor Hugo ~
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
~By Sam Abell ~
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 ~
How delicious is pleasure after torment!
~By Pierre Corneille ~
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
~By William Wycherley ~
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
~By Balthus ~
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
~By Tacitus ~
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
~By William Shenstone ~
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
~By Germaine Greer ~
Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.
~By Robert James Graves ~
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 ~
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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 ~
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
~By Stanley Kubrick ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
~By John Dryden ~
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
~By Anne Rice ~
When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.
~By Vivien Leigh ~
My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.
~By James Nasmyth ~
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 ~
The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.
~By William Banting ~
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
~By David Attenborough ~
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 ~
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.
~By Lydia Lunch ~
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
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 ~
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
~By Marcel Proust ~
The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
~By Jason Alexander ~
But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.
~By Piers Anthony ~
I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.
~By Linda Lavin ~
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 ~
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
~By Enid Bagnold ~
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
~By Joseph de Maistre ~
Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
~By Thomas Harris ~
Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
~By Christoph Martin Wieland ~
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
~By Nancy Banks Smith ~
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
~By Barbara McClintock ~
Work is both my living and my pleasure.
~By Harlan Howard ~
The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.
~By Polykarp Kusch ~
I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
~By Francis Quarles ~
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
~By Simone Weil ~
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
~By Samuel Johnson ~
To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
~By Stanislaw Lem ~
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 ~
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
~By Lord Byron ~
It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
~By Barbara McClintock ~
Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.
~By Brock Yates ~
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
~By David Brainerd ~
Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.
~By Donald Norman ~
Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.
~By Hugh Hopper ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
~By Nora Roberts ~
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
~By Sophocles ~
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
~By Eric Liddell ~
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
~By Zane Grey ~
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
~By Voltaire ~
Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.
~By Irving Langmuir ~
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