Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

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

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.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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

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

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.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

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

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

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.

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

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

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.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

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 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.

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

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

Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They’re trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

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

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

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

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

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

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

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

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

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

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

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

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

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.