The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is moreover governed by that quest. One lies in order to protect one's pleasure, or one's honour if the disclosure of one's pleasure runs counter to one's...
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzl...
There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.
If a pleasure lasts forever, it isn’t a pleasure anymore.
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that...
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.
Your greatest weakness will b'come your greatest Asset.. ..if you know How to handle it
An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.
Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.
It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
You do not want to live in a country ruled by people who never have any doubts. To have doubts is human. A horse has no doubts, a grasshopper has no doubts, an ant has no doubts. But a human being stops to think sometimes, and when he thinks, he hear...
You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and greatest weakness.
Oh man, the Vengaboys are my guilty pleasure.
I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
