Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time..

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit..

The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving..

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing..

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regr….

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure..

When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create..

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demons….

Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many..

I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season..

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from….

And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast..

To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort..

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?.

Detachment is the ultimate pleasure..

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age..

Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed..

It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do..

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the ple….

The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her a….