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

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

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.

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.

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 noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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

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

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Life 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.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

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

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

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

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

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

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.

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

If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

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

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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.

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

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

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

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.

Everything 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

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

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

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

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

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

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

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.

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.

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

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