#pleasure

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ↗

— Voltaire

#eating #god #had #made #more

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. ↗

— Voltaire

#dear #gives #instrument #love is #mankind

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#being #detective #doing #enjoy #gives

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#extraordinary #go #interested #keen #most

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#approaching #conquered #disorder #fans #find

It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#astonishing #black #few #go #green

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. ↗

— William Wycherley

#friendship #good #lasting #manly #pleasures

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly. ↗

— William Wycherley

#come #drunk #glorious #i #manly

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#because #bundle #child #easy #energy

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me. ↗

— Zane Grey

#i #inspires #me #pleasure #proofs