Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?

The purpose of pain in life is to regain the inner power of the mind and the innate courage of the heart; to start going from strength to strength to attain, retain and sustain the...

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

All political appointees of the President can be removed from their position of appointment at anytime at her pleasure,

When you have wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

Deny a man pleasure, the possession of woman’s body and he will show you his true colors.He will dismiss his frustration onto her, forcibly abuse her, offend her all at the cost of his desires,...

To feel your arms around me…to feel your breath on my neck…is pleasure in itself. It is home.

Still others reflected on how quickly the food could be snatched from a man’s table, or the child from a woman’s breast, or the wife from a man’s bedcloset, that no strength of grasp could...

A crowd of drunken lovers. Newspaper hats, new couples falling from couches and love- seats—the pleasure remembered, never the regret.

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. And as, every time that she indulged in it, pleasure came to...

Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won’t...

Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies only in virtue,my child, and all the sophistries of its...

Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain. It´s about declaring what is just and what is unjust,...

The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.

The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.

I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with...

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

We live in one of the few epochs of humanity where life isn’t just a painful cycle of toil, fatigue, and collapse. Now pleasure gyrates us through those stages.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Why don’t you like getting close?’ Marianne insisted. ‘Is it because you might get hurt?’ Owen shook his head. He still couldn’t look at her. ‘It’s because it’s never permanent. Everything dies. Everything gets destroyed....

Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going.

I wonder if it is the same for women, whether women always feel this pain when they are fucked? Or is it only in sodomy that pain and pleasure are so linked, so inextricable?

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

I just broke up with my girlfriend. My wife will be pleased. But first she’ll be displeased, because she didn’t know I had a girlfriend.

The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are...

You learn more about life and people in two hours of war than in four decades of peace. War is dirty, sure, war is senseless, but come on! Civilian life is also senseless, in its...

In the world of animals, pain serves an equivocal role. Parental nips and swipes are common tools in upbringing. And socially, pain is sometimes used to maintain hierarchies of dominance. But this animal use of...

He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language – happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean...

for the last nine months we have had the pleasure to take Chad-Drums under our wings and develop what we are now and always will be NIRVANA

Give me a cubic centimeter of your flesh and I could give you pain that would swallow you as the ocean swallows a grain of salt. And you would always be ripe for it, from...

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

He glanced at her, his hair wild and his eyes red. ‘May I give ye pleasure?’Still a gentleman. Emma smiled. But his voice sounded gruff and his appearance was that of an untamed barbarian. She...

The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

I don’t categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.

Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there’s a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with...

My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that somebody actually knew me. Three somebodies, to be exact. Two were roaming the highway in a...

Don’t see what you have achieved yesterday with the same pleasure eyes you used to see it when it was done by you”. Look forward and do better than you did earlier!

I have a masochistic pleasure to put in 14-hour days.

Jeremy Bentham startled the world many years ago by stating in effect that if the amount of pleasure obtained from each be equal there is nothing to choose between poetry and push-pin. Since few people...

Time spent thinking about life is better spent enjoying it.

A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.

…what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea, moderation?

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.