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The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations. -- Roland Barthes
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. -- Laurence Sterne
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. -- John Dryden
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. -- Jane Austen
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman. -- Nancy Banks Smith
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible. -- William Feather
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. -- Francois Fenelon
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. -- Marcel Proust
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. -- Russell Baker
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. -- Anthony Trollope
When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies. -- M. Night Shyamalan
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. -- Samuel Johnson
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. -- Bertrand Russell
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. -- William Temple
I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure. -- Emily Blunt
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek. -- John Buchanan Robinson
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff. -- Enid Bagnold
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. -- Marcel Achard
We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions. -- John Thorn
There are many other pleasures - besides the pleasure of physical union. -- Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage. -- Christina, Queen of Sweden
One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards. -- Thalassa Cruso
All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does. -- Julius Rosenwald
It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures -- Samuel Johnson
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted. -- Willem Dafoe
Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of the hunt. -- Fred Bear
GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable. -- Brother Lawrence
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people. -- Barbara Holland
In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life. -- Edward Gibbon
Heaven is here to stay and sex is here to stay! We'll be able to enjoy many of these so-called fleshly pleasures on the other side, like Jesus did! -- David Berg
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications. -- Richard Steele
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. -- Samuel Johnson
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. -- Mark Twain
The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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