Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

I’ve just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that’s the record.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Rascals 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.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

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

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

I 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.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

I think that success is having fun.

He 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.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

I enjoyed working with Stephen Merchant. He was wonderful. I’ve been such a big fan of his acting.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.