#pleas

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#destroy #greatest #greatest privilege #her #house

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#change #constitutional #day #every #every day

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#i #job #joy #just #music

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me." ↗

— Joseph Addison

#away #cannot #charitable #epitaph #gave

Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary. ↗

— Kamal Ahmed

#big #big news #colleagues #confirmed #down

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#get #i #letters #lot #people

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#fight #fights #pleasure #pleasures #some

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#christian #continually #crosses #death #exercise

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#applies #body #cannot #fail #fear

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#considering #far #flesh #forbidden #fruits