Aufwand / Expense Lächerlich / Ridiculous Momentan / Momentary Position Sex Vergnügen / Pleasure
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
It's ridiculous to have to base your relationship on money.
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Center is a very tough position to play.
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.