#pleas

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. ↗

— Robert Brustein

#even #function #itself #please #primary

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#inspirational #pleasure #age

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman. ↗

— Nancy Banks Smith

#bed #christie #given #more #other

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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Help me by whatever you are pleased to do in your provinces. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#me #pleased #provinces #whatever #you

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#always #explores #sense #smell #substances

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#anything #comes #delight #enjoy #enjoyed

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#energy #greater #harmony #laws #music

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#departures #find #lay #life #more

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. ↗

— Sophocles

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