An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles DickensLife is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
F. Scott FitzgeraldDo not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas JeffersonI believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
Bertrand RussellAmerica is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
BonoWomen have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H. L. MenckenAt times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich NietzscheRascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others‘ company.
Arthur SchopenhauerWe believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
Walt DisneyTo a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Joseph AddisonThe choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Benjamin DisraeliHe that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Benjamin FranklinThe situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.
Richard P. FeynmanWe cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Alan WattsThe natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel JohnsonNext to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand RussellThe 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.
Samuel JohnsonEverything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph AddisonLook, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
Joe BidenNothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
VoltaireIt is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
EpictetusI ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!
Woody AllenThe bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann HesseThe essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale CarnegieAmour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Aldous HuxleyYour true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous HuxleyIt gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert EinsteinFashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne WestwoodWe do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiTake from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhen a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Samuel JohnsonTruth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma GandhiThe idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert HubbardIt is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Arthur SchopenhauerIllusion is the first of all pleasures.
VoltaireIf one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
EpictetusIf pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Samuel JohnsonOne should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Joseph AddisonI draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
Narendra ModiMany a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin FranklinGod Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis BaconBehold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander PopeIn everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Marcus Tullius CiceroOnce writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
Ernest HemingwayI don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.
Anthony BourdainMusic, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Joseph AddisonIf you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThere are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
Muhammad AliThe end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
Albert CamusMysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Joseph AddisonAll achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon HillA man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. KennedyWe are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
William JamesWine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel JohnsonIt doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
H. L. MenckenTerrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They’re trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.
Noam ChomskyI need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.
Angelina JolieRight now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
Woody AllenIf merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James