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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. John D. Rockefeller

Eating is a necessity but a pleasure as well.

Robert Battle

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Joseph Addison

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Laurence Sterne

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Ernest Hemingway

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

Ian Mcewan

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Jacques Barzun

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

Robert South

One restaurant I visit without fail, whenever I'm in the Bay Area, is the Boulevard at 1 Mission Street, a few strides from the waterfront. It has excellent food and wine very much in the modern California style, but I go there less for any one dish than for the pleasure of dining with the restaurant's chefs.

Amor Towles

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Jane Austen

I know authors shouldn't play favorites with books, but 'Release Me' really is right up there for me. The characters truly came alive on the page and drove the story as much as I did from behind the scenes. It was a pleasure to write, and I'm so thrilled that it's the first of a trilogy because I get to spend more time with the characters.

Julie Kenner

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Honore de Balzac

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Benjamin Franklin

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

Robert Grosseteste

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

John Steinbeck

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.

Ricky Williams

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

Gunther Schuller

I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

Vince Neil

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

Gertrude Stein

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Helen Rowland

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

George Pierce Baker

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

Kate DiCamillo

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Michael Faraday

I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.

Adam Savage

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

Mike Royko

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

John Belushi

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

Edward Thorndike

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

Jonathan Franzen

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.

Chad Lowe

The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.

William Banting

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Thomas Harris

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

William Feather

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.

Adam Garcia

I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.

Felix Dennis

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Joshua Reynolds

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

Remy de Gourmont