Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
Everyone does what they can to avoid thinking. Laziness is the most basic human trait. People don't want to think -- they can't make the connection between entertainment and thought, they want immediate kicks. People will not be human until they get pleasure from thought. Only a thinking person can be a full person.
I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.
Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.
For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.
This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name
Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.
Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.
Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.
Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.
With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.
Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
. . . and the Universe,. . . will explode later for your pleasure.
I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine. . . Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.
What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?
I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.