#pleasure

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#begins #child #climax #compare #ending

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ↗

— Marina Warner

#imagery #pain #pleasure #vocabulary

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. ↗

— Simone Weil

#dreams #found #hard #joys #pleasant

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional? ↗

— Charles Eames

#functional #pleasure #said #who

With regard to my family as I said nothing upon the subject before I may tell you that I have six children living, 1 dead and before I have the pleasure of seeing you I expect another. ↗

— John Hawley

#before #children #dead #expect #family

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#angry #any #beyond #company #deny

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#choose #deem #deems #him #invade

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#ends #freedom #freedom from #only #pain

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#gives #mind #our #pains #pleasures

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#benefits #gratitude #impatient #inferiority #minds