Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.
The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.
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.
I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
Pleasure is the least consequential. . . engagement and meaning are much more important.
Reading will give you lasting pleasure.
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.
Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.
Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.
We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing that seems to move.
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
The fact is, ministry is too unpredictable to be motivated by security. It’s too unprofitable to be motivated by money. It’s too demanding to be motivated by pleasure, and it’s too criticized to be motivated by fame. Our ministry should be motivated by the pleasure of God, and God is pleased when we have a ministry powered by faith.