#pleasure

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#pleasures #revision #writing

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#angels #be happy #believing #demons #even

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes. ↗

— Christoph Martin Wieland

#oft #pleasure #source #too #transient

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#different #less #old #old age #pleasures

When I portray Stabler, I have to shave every day and cut my hair every week! And then, I really like to change my looks for films like 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle' where I have the pleasure of playing the ugliest man in the world. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#change #cut #day #every #every day

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#arms #children #conversation #get #love

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#leaves #long-lasting #mark #only #others

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give. ↗

— Robert Mondavi

#amazed #give #great #great pleasure #i

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#cheap #entertainment #lasting #nor #pleasure