#pleas

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride. ↗

— Martin Luther

#pleasure #pride #riches #world

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#daddy #expected #figuring #gentle #i

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#because #gave #hated #pain #pleasure

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#deceiver #double #pleasure

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages. ↗

— James Madison

#country #easy #journey #long #long journey

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#christmas time #dime #how #nickel #petitions

I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'm Indebted to rest respecting it truly ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #beauty #creation #creativity #credit

It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#atonement #beach #bit #dirty #get

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#element #exist #greatest #know #perhaps

When I portray Stabler, I have to shave every day and cut my hair every week! And then, I really like to change my looks for films like 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle' where I have the pleasure of playing the ugliest man in the world. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#change #cut #day #every #every day