#pleasure

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free. ↗

— Anita Loos

#everything #free #insipid #paid #pleasure

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#been #enjoy #getting #haven #i

I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#anything #get #i #i can #know

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#dose #everyone #how #i #i think

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

— Martin Luther

#pleasure #pride #riches #world

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

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#pleasures #revision #writing

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#angels #be happy #believing #demons #even

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. ↗

— David McCullough

#college #courses #english #go #had