The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Oscar Wilde

Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.

Yiddish proverb

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

William S. Burroughs

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Germaine Greer

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.

O. A. Battista

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

Henry David Thoreau

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Marie Henri Beyle (stendhal)

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Raymond Hitchcock

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

Alexander Smith

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

Socrates

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

Oscar Wilde

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

William Shakespeare

Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.

William Shakespeare

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

Horace Mann

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne

She is the least benightedly unintelligent organic lifeform it has ever been my distinct lack of pleasure not to have been able to avoid meeting.

Douglas Adams

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Epicurus

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Lord Chesterfield

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplier

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Peter McWilliams

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

C. S. Lewis

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

Evelyn Waugh

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Giacomo Casanova

Perhaps the most lasting pleasure in life is the pleasure of not going to church.

William Ralph Inge

Failures are very public, and successes are short lived. It's the pleasure of drawing funny pictures that makes up for it.

Bill Watterson

He gives us great effort everyday, and he carries himself well outside of here. He has a great attitude. He's a pleasure to coach.

Rob Ridings

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Frank Moore Colby

They played hard. They always play hard. They don't quit and they're a pleasure to coach.

Chris Fenton

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

Annie Dillard

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

Matt Damon

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Mary Wilson Little

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

Dean Koontz

I am very happy that we are continuing our brilliant collaboration with Cervlo. It has been a pleasure being part of the developent of their bikes. I've been constantly impressed with their technology and it means a lot to me that we have best material available. Cervlo's bikes give us a competitive edge and I know that I can win the biggest races on these bikes.

Ivan Basso

The kids are great drivers, ... They were all well behaved and it's my pleasure to give these kids the same opportunities I had when I was young.

David Hampton

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

Russell Baker

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Juvenal

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Michael Faraday

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Hopefully they will get the message that their car is going to be towed. That is a pretty serious thing if you need your car due to business or pleasure.

Jerry Johns

It gives us no pleasure to stand in numbers between communities who refuse to engage with each other to resolve their differences but until they do we will continue to do our job and it will continue to cost money on this scale.

Sir Hugh Orde

It gets them interested in reading for pleasure, not necessarily for the information, which is really the ultimate goal because we want kids to enjoy reading.

Peter Slack

I wish I could coach 100 Willies. Coaching Willie has been a pleasure. I admit that I was a little nervous when he made those comments about being player of the year, but I love how he backed them up. He's been a joy.

John Zeoli

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

William Styron

It's very much headed in the right direction. When I come back and watch this group, it's going to be a pleasure.

Jason Forte

It's a special pleasure to see you here today ? and I mean that genuinely.

Mark Lancaster

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

Alex Trebek

She's different, it's a pleasure. Before it was too serious, and every point was a crucial; every point was life.

Nick Bollettieri

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

Debra Messing

A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.

St. Basil

Coaching them is a pleasure. That's why when they come out and have a half like that, it's like you don't know what to do because you don't see it very often.

John Chernick

He?s truly a gifted athlete. He?s a wonderful young man and just a pleasure to coach.

John Concannon

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

Stephan Jenkins

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Edward G. Bulwer lytton

In my business, you are always looking for development opportunities, so there is really no difference between business and pleasure.

Gary Switzer

Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

Andre Segovia

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain / Clings cruelly to us.

John Keats

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

Wilhelm Reich

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Pierre Charron

It's always a pleasure to have our former champions return. So many of them have developed a solid following with our faithful fans.

Steve Wilmot

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

Kanye West

The pleasure of love is in loving.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

I am so excited about working with Jesse, ... I haven't met him yet, but I hear he is a really nice guy and it will be my pleasure to work with him on this tour which will bring us to New Orleans on August 9.

Hope Partlow

The most important thing is picking things you love, things that give you pleasure and bring joy.

Linda Wall

They both look so happy and it's such a pleasure to see two people that are appropriate witnesses, in my humble opinion, for each other's lives.

Brittany Murphy

The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.

Edward Clarke

The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure.

Mikhail Baryshinikov

It was a time of purification, so you had to fast and abstain from pleasure. The hot foods would get the blood flowing.

Melissa Guerra

It's a hardship for those involved. We realize that and take no pleasure in it, but it was the financially responsible thing to do.

Marc Ward

For me and for John, it really kind of opened the minds of people from all over world to open their boathouses to people who are blind, ... I've gained so much (from rowing), I'd love to see people all over the world get the same pleasure and opportunity I had.

Claire Gilbert

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Sir John Vanbrugh

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands - and all you can do is scratch it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Jacques Barzun

[There are some lucky companies for which Y2K has hardly been an issue.] I read these articles with great pleasure knowing that competitors are spending on these issues, ... It's another advantage we have.

David Lord

The best [an American] can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

George F. Kennan

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.

Clarence Darrow

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

Cicero

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

Aaron Burr

It is a joy to live (on campus), and it is a pleasure to open my house to students.

Fred Siegel

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

George Bataille

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Bernard M. Baruch

There is no better way to allow your clothes to keep on giving you pleasure than to share them with someone else. The families that were affected by Hurricane Katrina need our help.

Star Jones

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

Joseph Addison

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

Xenophon

For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

Nathaniel Branden

There is no reason to feel guilty for re-gifting because the main purpose that someone gives you a gift is to give you pleasure.

Bruce Weinstein

It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.

Martin Sheen

Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Hugo Black

Baseball is still in his blood, and he loves it. And he's a pleasure to work with. ... All of my employees here, we have the same heart. We're developing quality players from the inside out.

Roy Silver

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

Jane Austen

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

A. E. Housman

He was a pleasure, a joy. He was everything.

Doug Peterson

I had the pleasure of working with him for five years. I improved a lot in my career because of him.

Rogerio Ceni

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The only safe pleasure for a parliamentarian is a bag of boiled sweets.

Julian Critchley

Business was his pleasure; pleasure was his business.

Maria Edgeworth

Our motto is 'team first' and every single guy has seemed to buy into that. This has been a really fun group to coach because they're highly motivated. It's been a pleasure.

Luke Reilly

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

John D. Rockefeller

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Mario Vargas Llosa

We have mistresses for pleasure, concubines to care for our daily body's needs and wives to bear us legitimate children and to be faithful guardians of our households.

Demosthenes

We went out on the Harris chain. They got some wildlife ideas, photos of turtles and birds and we were lucky enough to catch a fish. Neither one of them caught one, but I have invited them to go fishing with me later on, hopefully, on a pleasure trip.

Stephen Browning

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Thomas Hardy

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Lydia M. Child

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Robinson Jeffers

I know of no pleasure that quite matches that of seeing your youngster proudly flaunting something you have made.

Ruth Goode

So far, we have closets full of beautiful things. All look like new - for girls and boys. Our members are delighted. Going through pretty things and working for such a lovely outcome is a pleasure.

Dee Smith

The experience [of working with Blades] was nothing but pleasure and joy.

Oscar Hernandez

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability — they should go hand in hand.

Donald A. Norman

He figures he knows the Murdoch system and nothing would give him greater pleasure than beating his old coach. Nothing would give the old coach a better feeling than to send him home with a couple of lessons on working harder.

Al Murdoch

The homes around downtown are so beautiful. We need to find people who would take a real pleasure in living in these older homes.

Kathy Bethune

Some years it's a challenge to work with kids. This year it's a pleasure, and those five are a big reason why.

Larry Cunha

Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox.

Jean Renoir

They're just a great program, just class people. It's a pleasure playing them.

Mark Stinson

It was a pleasure. He was a great trial judge. He understood the rules of evidence and making the tough calls in a case.

Paul Marigonda

It is a real pleasure to have such a gem among us.

Norman Taylor

The survey paints an image of Japanese high school students being pleasure-seeking, average-seeking and little motivated.

Asahi Shimbun

It's a great pleasure for me and my team. It was a surprise. A good surprise.

Alain Ducasse

[He says he takes great pleasure in helping other hurricane victims out. He is so comfortable in his new surroundings, he said, that he's looking for other friends and family to come to Buffalo.] Come north, it's the best way to go, ... I said, man, the folks is good to you, you have a chance to make a living. They're gonna help you get on your feet. It's up to you what you do from there.

Andre Brown

I think success comes from the pleasure of doing what you enjoy.

Ted Ames

It's nothing that you get any pleasure out of, . . . but you would come back. You would finalize it.

Beth Devitt

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

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Aphra Behn

Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John W. Gardner

What are you going to do? They know you feel like a jerk and we've all done it. Hopefully it won't be the last time I'll ever have the pleasure of putting one in that water, because that would mean I won't be here.

Joey Sindelar

I had the pleasure of competing at the Olympic Games and at Wimbledon and was fortunate enough to win the gold medal in both events.

Boris Becker

I've played with him for eight years and a bit, and he helped me win a lot of hockey games with game-winning goals. Playing with him for that long and getting to see lots of his goals was a real pleasure.

Curtis Joseph

It's with great pleasure we welcome ET Canada to the Entertainment Tonight family.

Linda Bell

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The pleasure of the act of love is gross and brief and brings loathing after it.

Gaius Petronius

This really is a pleasure, and I thank all of you.

Kathleen Glynn

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

W. Somerset Maugham

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Italo Calvino

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

There is a risk. But you can't let it get you as a pilot. The question is: Does the pleasure of flying surpass the risk? I think it does.

Dashwood Hicks

She is a true pleasure to coach. She doesn't use many excuses. It's yes-sir, no-sir. Always at practice, a good team leader...

Charles Vidrine

As a gathering place for the community, it is a pleasure to join in the excitement of this event. We look forward to providing people in the Omaha area their first opportunity to acquire this historic item, which we are all proud of.

Doug Stewart

They are the nicest people in the world. They are a pleasure to deal with. I can understand their wanting to back away from this situation. They don't need this aggravation.

Jim Tutwiler

It was just a pleasure to go down there with those two guys. I'm a better person for being around them. They've both meant a lot to me, and you couldn't have two better kids to go down there with.

Tim Hutchins

Even as a Swiss pilot, I would be afraid to fly over a country which is in war, and I wouldn't have much pleasure to fly over a country where people are dying under the bombs.

Bertrand Piccard

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick Ii

I think if you can make something delicious and make it pretty on top, it's a double pleasure. People enjoy it twice as much.

Judy Salley

I used to give my paintings away to people. I just wanted to make something pretty that would give somebody some pleasure. If somebody told me they liked a painting, I'd just give it to them.

Helen Stewart

It's my pleasure to welcome Craig to the Board. His experience in leading young software companies through accelerated growth is ideal as we increase focus on our go-to-market objectives.

Phil Delurgio

They have a great program here. That's why tonight's a surprise to me. I really thought it would be a close game... It's a pleasure to come down here because it's first class in every manner.

Rod Delmonico

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Francois Fenelon

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

Yahya Jammeh

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

J. G. Ballard

It's just to celebrate literacy more than anything. We want students to know that they can read for pleasure as well as to get information.

Jane Harrison

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick The Great

Be mindful of every little pleasure in life, By living everyday like it's your last day.

Master Jin Kwon

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

Charles M. De Talleyrand

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Thomas Harris

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Nicholas Chamfort

They seek, consciously or not, to create a clean zone around their all-important bodies: an area free of dirt, smoke, uncomfortable ideas or pleasure.

Anthony Bourdain

He hurt his left arm while skiing for pleasure. He is undergoing tests. We are afraid he may have broken something.

Gerard Rougier

People like me who believe the left can be a moderate force—we have failed. We are stuck in the medieval notion that there is an aristocracy and a people, and the people want a piece of what the aristocracy had—a life subsidized enough to have a minimum of work and a maximum of pleasure.

Lucia Annunziata

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.

Chad Lowe

I don't know what to compare that to. It's for sure each team has something in mind about the other. It's an honor and a pleasure to play a game against them.

Ichiro Suzuki

My eye will roam with equal pleasure over the face of a beautiful woman as it will over the cuts of meat displayed in a butcher's shop window.

Gerard Depardieu

And I know they (CSU) always get jacked up and want to come down here and beat us. We know we're going to get their best effort, so we've got to play hard. And personally, just growing up in Colorado, it's been a pleasure to be a part of it now for the last three years. Hopefully, we'll come out with a victory.

Joel Klatt

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

It will be a pleasure to follow in his footsteps.

Stephen Goodwin

He's delighted with it, ... And indeed, I think that for him, this really came from the heart, this piece. So to have it represented well to the movie-going audience was quite a pleasure for him.

Frank Darabont

It's a pleasure coming to watch good coaching and great kids. They play with a lot of character.

Frank Hicks

It was the character and the attitude of the players that made the difference. They didn't give in to fatigue or lack of production. It was a pleasure to go to the park every day because these kids wanted to play.

Lenn Sakata

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

St. John Of The Cross

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Tony Benn

He's one extreme case where he wants to fight. We have other guys who follow boxing and love the sport and want to see what it's like and enhance their viewing pleasure. It's kind of a good experience.

Al Lachica

If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.

Lila Acheson Wallace

Proved incapable of disappointing, live or on record...You get the feeling the Foo Fighters take pleasure in making every show as enjoyable for their fans as they evidently are for them.

Foo Fighters

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

Mark Twain

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

George Gordon

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

George Sand

I was working hard to stay ahead of Hamish. It is a real pleasure to see these cars run in anger.

Bobby Rahal

After deciding to retire it was a pleasure to recommend David James -- so I know the position is in safe hands.

David Seaman

He's been a pleasure to coach on and off the floor.

Dave Uran

That?s where you respond to incremental successes with something that gives you personal pleasure.

Patricia Kyle

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

Abraham Clark

He's a great player and he handles himself so well. He's really a pleasure to watch.

George Baker

One who has control over the mind is tranquil in heat and cold, in pleasure and pain, and in honor and dishonor; and is ever steadfast with the Supreme Self.

Bhagavad Gita

I don't know Mr. Conti, I have not had the pleasure of hearing his voice, even by telephone.

Gerard Mestrallet

It's a pleasure and honor to be here, knowing what y'all have been through.

Otis Williams

Everything I've done at Lake City Police Department has been a pleasure. I have no regrets.

Scott Cantey

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Katherine Mansfield

We use a minimal amount of taxpayers money on our battle with drugs, ... It gives me great pleasure to buy drugs in our drug efforts with money seized from other drug dealers.

John Morris