Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.
The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
L. Ram Saran Das was a member of the revolutionary party which was held responsible for many a violent deed. But this by no means proves that revolutionaries are bloodthirsty monsters, seeking pleasure in destruction.
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
Ranveer is a great co-actor. He is extremely reactive and extremely responsive. He is a pleasure to work with.
It's always a real pleasure to play at Wembley.
The reality show 'America's Next Top Model' is my girlie pleasure.
Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.
At Bayern, I have rediscovered the pleasure of playing. Here, my body is completely free.
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.
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows I've already seen 400 times on TV.
I had the pleasure of working for 'The Late Show' with O'Brien when I was an NBC page at 30 Rockefeller Center, and it was always so much fun.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
