#pleas

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation. ↗

— Frances Burney

#easily #mind #naturally #pleasure #prone

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#perhaps #pleasure #relief

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#become #career #did #envisioned #i

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#fruit #labor #pleasures #sweetest

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. ↗

— Lord Byron

#gathering #greatest #grief #grieve #i

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#fasting #god #more #please #praying

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#feels #general #give #must #necessary

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#momentary #pleasure #position #ridiculous #sex

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#because #being #comes #face #fix

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. ↗

— Truman Capote

#greatest #greatest pleasure #inner #make #me