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

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.

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

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Why don’t Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

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

I don’t like drinking, basically.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

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

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.

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

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

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

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

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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

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

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Fun is good.

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

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

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

It’s a lot of fun to fight.

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.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Life must be lived as play.

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

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

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.

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.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

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.

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.

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.