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Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.
Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.
But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.
There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.
Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring.
Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.
I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.
It gives me great pleasure to see my name linked with clubs like Manchester United and Milan.
The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.
Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!
We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.
I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.
Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.
Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.
God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.
It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.
Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Is there any pleasure in anger? Yes, if the fire of my anger appeases the ashes of my friends.
Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.
All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well!
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.
People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.
If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.
If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.