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.
Captain, you have heard the charges. How do you plead? Before you answer, you should know that if you plead "guilty" you'll be immediately extradited and U.N.S. law will take over. Not guilty. Also, it's not very nice to lie in court. But it beats ex...
When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unp...
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.
Be wise and resist pleasures. A fool always seeks pleasures.
Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading
Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.
The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.
This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects of delight; and though this pleasure does not so powerfully affect us, nor act so strongly on the senses as some ...
When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
There are two great pleasures in gambling: winning and losing.
The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by coveting more.
