It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

We 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.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

The 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.

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

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

If 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.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

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me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.

Your 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.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

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

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

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

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.

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

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

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

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

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

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

I 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.

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

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‚Is it good? Does it give pleasure?‘

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

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

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.