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

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.

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

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

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.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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

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.

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

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

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

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