#pleasure

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#die #few #i #never #notices

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#discovery #explained #hope #i #i hope that

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#anti-semitism #being #i #jew #pleasures

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. ↗

— Epictetus

#foolish #nature #pleasures #resist #slave

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#how #little #me #need #pleasure

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices. ↗

— Frederick II

#greatest #new #next #noblest #off

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience. ↗

— Martin Fry

#big #big hit #hit #hit records #joy

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man? ↗

— Jim Garrison

#derive #even #guilty #hounded #i

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. ↗

— Ina Garten

#extravagance #first #first thing #garden #gives

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#humor #life #pleasure #death