The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
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.
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, you just enjoy it. No sense feeling guilty about it.
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
I was wedded to all the stars of the sky.There was not a single star left, and I married every one of them with great spiritual pleasure. Then I married the moon.
You know the good thing with hardships and moving on? -- you'll surely taste the pleasure of getting up and do more. Be better!
This is what he disliked about political people – injustice and calamity animated them, it was their milk, their lifeblood, it pleasured them.
May your divinity, Lord, take pleasure in me and lead me above the world to be with you.
Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the way to be useful and consequently happy.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
