Good habits stockpile pleasure. Bad habits postpone pain.

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

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.

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.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism.

When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles and rhymes and was his only job to put them down?...

Tiramisu for desert.

A good woman is a pleasured treasure.

People lose their pleasures because they “don’t care”. Others misuse their treasures because they “care less”. If you’ll win, you must care!

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

If it’s dangerous, then you go first. If it’s pleasurable, then I’ll be brave and lead the charge.

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils...

After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.

The body is an art to give pleasure to the soul

Once you are defiled, you can’t get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be defiled over and over again.

Dreams aren’t only an illusion to put you into a subconsciously pleasurable state of mind for the time being, but also a pathway to gain complete contentment.

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don’t think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very...

Exploration of her body will open the doors to pleasuring her in ways she has yet to experience.

Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible.

People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.

We did not make ourselves, nor did we fashion a world that could not work without pain, and great pain at that, with a little pleasure, very little, to string us along–a world where all...

Anahita mewed contentment as she snuggled even closer to Imamiah. She was enjoying her interactions with Imamiah very much. She could not understand why angels remained as spirit when this flesh was so much more...

…when we say we’re looking for a spiritual adviser, we’re really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well...

Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a...

If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the late James Watt, who said … that I deserved hanging for bringing into...

He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin.

It will change your life if you accept her offer. Common pleasures will no longer hold sway over you. It’s somewhat like catching religion.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.

Ice T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.

He didn’t just want her now. He needed her. He needed to feel his rhythm in her body, to see if his soul was still there in her pleasure.

It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering...

It is the thought that the least efficient way of of finding either happiness or pleasure is to pursue them. Put in terms of happiness, we can see it like this: To be happy you...

If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find...

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure...

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

In the course of aesthetic experience, the perceiver may be overwhelmed by this ‘mere object’, overcome with emotion, altered to the very roots of his being.[…] The experience of beauty involves an exchange of power,...

With you I understood that pleasure is not something you give or take. It’s a way of giving yourself and calling forth the gift of self from another person.

We conform to pain until we don’t notice it anymore; it’s what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out our pleasure too.

They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.

Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.

The chief means of liberating women is replacing of compulsiveness and compulsion by the pleasure principle. Cooking, clothes, beauty, and housekeeping are all compulsive activities in which the anxiety quotient has long since replaced the...

All you have is today. Never mourn for tomorrow that is past and gone. You don’t deserve to starve today of its pleasure and treasure. Feel happy!

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.

For your learning disability pleasure, I’ll be playing a song backwards.

… the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one’s humanity.