Pastoral Resources

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

I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

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

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

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.