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

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.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

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

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.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

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

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

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?

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

The only film I’ve enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in ‚The Wrestler.‘

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

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

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

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

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

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

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.

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.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

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

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

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.