The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
~ Anacharsis
Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
~ Henny Youngman
Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.
~ Donald Norman
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
~ Annie Dillard
Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.
~ Paul Bloom
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
~ Dale Carnegie
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
~ James Joyce
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
~ Pierre Bonnard
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
~ Lord Byron
We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.
~ P. J. O'rourke
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
~ Margaret Cavendish
It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
~ Kate Christensen
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.
~ Brooke Shields
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
~ J.k. Rowling
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
~ Mark Strand
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
~ Irving Penn
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
~ Ellen G. White
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
~ Aldous Huxley
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
~ John Stuart Mill
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.
~ Martin Filler
