#pleasure

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#dose #everyone #how #i #i think

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride. ↗

— Martin Luther

#pleasure #pride #riches #world

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

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#because #gave #hated #pain #pleasure

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#deceiver #double #pleasure

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#character #comes #course #differences #each

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#curious #difficulties #idiosyncrasies #man #pleasure

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

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#apart #entirely #expansive #great #great virtues

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. ↗

— David McCullough

#college #courses #english #go #had

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#element #exist #greatest #know #perhaps