Pastoral Resources

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

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

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

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.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.