#pleas

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ↗

— George Orwell

#bound #disregard #fair #fair play #hatred

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. ↗

— Jane Austen

#memory #pain #pleasure #life

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about ↗

— Michael Grant

#pleasure #truth #life

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. ↗

— Epictetus

#cease #greatest #greatest pleasures #moderation #please

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head. ↗

— Paul Auster

#choice #comfort #comsolation #escape #pleasure

They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes. ↗

— Bronnie Ware

#pain #pleasure #change

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#contemplation #derived #elevating #i #intense

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure. ↗

— Voltaire

#pleasure #voltaire #beauty

If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we`ve lost a lot. ↗

— Savannah Page

#life #pleasure #senses #beauty

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#discover #happily #her #how #man