#pleas

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#comes #communication #does #grieve #i

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#any #me #pleasure #savor #without

The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#always #delightful #doubt #english #every

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one. ↗

— Karen Morley

#became #because #care #communist #entered

I'm acting for the pleasure of it. ↗

— David Morse

#i #pleasure

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run. ↗

— Viggo Mortensen

#everyone #going #honestly #i #long

If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased. ↗

— Len G. Murray

#anyone #asked #complain #easily #ever

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner. ↗

— Holly Near

#great #had #i #like #living

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#brings #cultivate #gain #highest #never

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#always #books #counselors #disinterested #hand