Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.
Reading is perhaps the greatest pleasure you will have in life; the one you will think of longest, and repent of least.
It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Is there any pleasure in anger? Yes, if the fire of my anger appeases the ashes of my friends.
I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.
