#pleasure

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure. ↗

— Lord Byron

#convert #could #five #four #give

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. ↗

— Lord Byron

#christianity #damned #fancying #great #great mind

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#having #like #love #making #novel

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it. ↗

— Jack Cade

#any #break #contrary #distinction #else

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible. ↗

— William Feather

#business #interfering #makes #other #pleasure

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#discovering #doing #i #i can #know

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#just #learn #make #pleasure #reading

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work. ↗

— Chuck Close

#always #else #pleasure #someone #talk

Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been without thought? Without...integrity? How could she have felt like that without love? Was love essential? Did it even exist - the love she had dreamed of her life? If it did, it was too late now for her to find it. Must she make do with this instead, then? Only this? Pleasure without love? ↗

— Mary Balogh

#peace #pleasure #dreams

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#life #limit #pleasures #protect