#pleas

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#almost #draw #even #extinguish #may

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#commit #disagreeable #does #just #like

Diseases are the tax on pleasures. ↗

— John Ray

#pleasures #tax

The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#being #bring #could #hebrews #his

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#any #give #give me #i #me

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that. ↗

— Asa Hutchinson

#carefully #checks #continue #i #i think

I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you. ↗

— John Green

#inevitable #love #oblivion #pleasure #simple

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant. ↗

— George Ade

#neighbors #pleasant #themselves #unto #your

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#blessed #blessing #enjoy #memory #must

That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure. ↗

— Jean Alesi

#any #best #chance #dream #drive