#pleasure

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ↗

— Thomas Macaulay

#because #gave #hated #pain #pleasure

The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#before #book #book tour #gratifying #had

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. ↗

— Kenko Yoshida

#before #beyond #book #compare #converse

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#chefs #composed #dainty #deserted #devour

These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure? ↗

— Robert M. Parker, Jr.

#fat #i #just #like #meals

I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#eat #guilty #guilty pleasure #i #i am

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. ↗

— Robert South

#novelty #parent #pleasure

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#allowing #appetites #brings #death #deprives

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. ↗

— Joshua L. Liebman

#immediate #long-term #maturity #person #pleasures

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. ↗

— Epictetus

#cease #greatest #greatest pleasures #moderation #please