The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.
I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
There are so many ways to seek and find pleasure, but only one way to search and gain happiness; which is through your mind.
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
In England, I suppose I have been known to once or twice tune into 'Big Brother', which is a pretty terrible guilty pleasure.
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
My pleasure in reading is not necessarily the witnessing of something new, but of something familiar which I haven't seen described.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in reading a good novel, must be incredibly stupid
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.
Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
Secrets are sexual pleasure, for they taunt your mind in the shadows like piercing arrows hit metal.
Sometime we get so tired that we wish to get defeated, and want to feel the pleasure of that failure.
