#pleasure

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#belief #delightful #given #had #him

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#both #despises #enslaved #father #him

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them. ↗

— William Bligh

#beginning #collecting #day #first #had

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ↗

— Aristotle

#avoid #pain #pleasure #secure #wise

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. ↗

— David Attenborough

#amazement #beautiful #feel #important #must

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#almighty #first #garden #god #god almighty

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. ↗

— Russell Baker

#enjoy #know #left #lot #more

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#arts #belong #find #generation #i

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not. ↗

— Orlando A. Battista

#enemy #experience #feeling #forgive #genuinely

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#delightful #fruit #got #happiness #into