Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
My greatest pleasure is still flying private. I spend between $300,000 to $500,000, depending on my year, on flying private.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate.
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.
Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
