Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important..

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person..

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed..

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will h….

I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or somet….

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at..

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 r….

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent..

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure..

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving c….

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge..

I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright..

Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage..

I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always co….

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is.

To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear..

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure..

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on..

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal..

Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures..

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness..