I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
The beauty of any work of art is related to the pleasure it gives us when we know it well.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.
Do not wish an everlasting spring! Without tasting the winter, you cannot get pleasure out of the spring!
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
I care not that this moment’s lot was thin and sparsely dealt; all pleasures sweet can be forgot the instant they are felt.
Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
Confused by the mind and diffused by the senses, we seek Pleasure and lose the great Treasure called Life.-RVM
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'
I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
