#pleasure

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#giving #many #old #old age #pleasures

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#after #art #audience #beauty #decade

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cause #consciousness #falsity #ignorance #inconstancy

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. ↗

— Jean Paul

#mere #more #pleasure #something #than

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#creativity #great #huge #huge opportunity #innovation

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. ↗

— John Petit-Senn

#never #pleasures #take #those #tire

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#pain #pleasure #reasons #totally

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#give #happiness #hate #life #look

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#around #dad #game #golf #him

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#book #chasing #doing #i #pleasures