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If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.
To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort.
My guiltiest pleasure is... chocolates with strawberry cream and trashy television - 'Geordie Shore,' 'Katie,' etc.
Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.
One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.
Interior decor is my guilty pleasure. If I'm going to splurge on something, it's more for my home than for clothes.
I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!
Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'
The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.
Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working.
Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.
I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.
If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.
In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing.
The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
So have a day of pleasure Do things that make you smile For .............. you are treasured Today and all the while.
Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless.
If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.
The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?
The pleasure in lovers' gifts is that they are often covert and secretive, worn next to the skin, hidden under pillows.
The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.
I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic.
The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.