It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.
There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.
If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. . . . The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.
No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.
Buy a condom, ribbed for her pleasure. Turn it inside out, now it's ribbed for your pleasure.
So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness
As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.
The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry.
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind. . . To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.
I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
Pleasure is always something apposed to pain it is never separate from pain
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.