#pleasure

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#complains #fool #indigestion #moral #pleasure

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#lust #pleasure #love

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#pleasure #sad #sorrow #sorrow

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#cause #displeasure #go #hope #i

I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#day #go #great #great pleasure #i

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #jesus-shock #philosophy #pleasure

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want. ↗

— Frank Butler

#get #giving #indeed #joy #pleasure

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#burden #fitted #great #joys #last

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#bearing #much #pain #pleasure

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#being #intellectual #issues #knowing #me