What is the best thing about people doubting your potential? The pleasure of proving them wrong.

Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

Good habits stockpile pleasure. Bad habits postpone pain.

JACKYour duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNONMy duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.

LADY BRACKNELLI had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.ALGERNONI hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object...

With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness… something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame,...

Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove

We two make banquets of the plainest fareIn every cup we find the thrill of pleasure… For us life always moves with lilting measureWe two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose – this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

On se prépare à la jouissance du siècle, et, le moment venu, elle a un goût de Fernet Branca. Sur ce point comme sur quelques autres, Julia a raison : ne jamais investir dans la...

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

The idea makes a lot of people uncomfortable. […] It’s hurt a great many people and been responsible for a great deal of misery. But, to my mind at least, that doesn’t mean it can’t...

How shall we distinguish that whichis good in pleasure from that which is not good?”Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is thepleasure of the bee to gather honey...

There are Seven Deadly Social Sins:Politics without principle.Wealth without work.Commerce without morality.Pleasure without conscience.Education without character.Science without humility.Worship without sacrifice.

There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing all specific thoughts from her brain. It ushered in the solid, dreamless sleep that otherwise eluded her.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall,...

People are attracted more towards bad things because being good has been turned into a boring duty. No adrenaline & dopamine rush, no rewards!

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition’s stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

L’homme jouit du bonheur qu’il ressent, et la femme de celui qu’elle procure. Cette différence, si essentielle et si peu remarquée, influe pourtant, d’une manière bien sensible, sur la totalité de leur conduite respective. Le...

She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political–for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible for us to come to the work of writing clearer, ready for the...

In Freud’s story our possibilities for satisfaction depend upon our capacity for frustration; if we can’t let ourselves feel our frustration – and, surprisingly, this is a surprisingly difficult thing to do – we can’t...

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Strongest pain often gives the deepest pleasure.

Passion is all but soft, it’s not tender, it’s violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

The most wonderful pleasure on earth is in saving treasures in heaven… The most wonderful treasure lies in the pleasure of doing so… Live life so well!

Happiness. We’re tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven’s sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn’t, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment...

The greatest part of the job was… that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

Your erotic,A memoir of pleasure.Caress the streets as through they held the touch of mink,Leaving only trails of stardust.Your eyes could Pierce hearts, leaving eternal scars of that moment,Moments so bittersweet they linger upon the...

If you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can’t wait until you’re sixty-five.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer

—I won’t go about to argue the point with you,—’tis so,—and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as can be, “That both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I...

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me...

A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.

The overwhelming noise we live with has made a fundamental pleasure like sex somehow less exciting, less satisfying, than it was for our libidinous forefathers and mothers. It seems to me that for sex and...

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one’s self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation...

a joy that hurts with sadnessa sadness that is pleasurablea pleasure full of terrora terror that excitesan excitement that calmsa calmness that frightens.

these sailors are men who have found a purpose in life and now take simple pleasure in it.” Jasnah looked at the next drawing. “Many people make far less out of life.

…up to no good—and pleased about it.

I was aware that I was taking inordinate pleasure in small, technological events and objects, and that this was probably a semiconscious tactic meant to evade confronting certain agonizing life events which were probably not...

When you’re coming into something that is reasonably successful, the question always is, ‘What are you going to do to make it more successful?’ … For me, it’s just a question to find a way...

Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure...

It was wonderful to see the sparkle back in her eyes. He wanted to keep it there. For the first time in years he’d found himself actually caring about how someone else felt. He’d been...