Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

Show yourself more human than critical, and then your Pleasure will increase.

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

There is no greater pleasure than having a dog. And that's a scientific fact!

What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

It is my great pleasure performing in front of my fans, and I enjoy it a lot.

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

I will always look back with great pleasure on the time spent in the DFB team.

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet.

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

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