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Author:Pliny the Elder

“Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire; nor can anything restrain or regulate the love of money but a sense of honor and virtue, which, if it be not nearly equal at all times, will naturally abound most in ages of knowledge and refinement.”

Ifs Men Age Desire Pleasure Virtue Honor Equal Valuable Riches All Time Accustomed Refinement Love Of Money

Book:Essays and treatises on several subjects in two volumes: Essays, moral, political, and literacy

Source: Essays and treatises on several subjects in two volumes: Essays, moral, political, and literacy

“That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.”

Ifs Want May Individual Work Pleasure Attitude Working It Acceptable

Author:Celia Green

“The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.”

Ifs Self Seems Pleasure Deals Sacrifice Accounts Definitions Stores Engaged Expensive Buying Consumption Mystical Shrines Merchandise

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.”

Ifs Thinking World Humans Wells Hands Would Be Pain Remember Lying Pleasure Break Blood This World Bears Patterns Flesh Pleasant Life Death Flesh And Blood Love Death

Author:Stevie Smith

“Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall The visions of a busy brain, We'll have our pleasure o'er again, To warm the heart, to charm the sight, Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.”

Ifs Heart Dream Night Fall Sleep Pleasure Brain Vision Sweet Gay Sight Busy Warm Charm Stillness Good Night Sweet Sleep

Book:Dramas: The separation: a tragedy. The stripling: a tragedy ... written in prose. The phantom: a musical drama. Enthusiasm: a comedy

Source: Dramas: The separation: a tragedy. The stripling: a tragedy ... written in prose. The phantom: a musical drama. Enthusiasm: a comedy

“Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.”

“If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.”

Ifs Wells Ends Play Might Earth Joy Courses Heaven Pleasure Sitting Theater Leaving Dinner Tickets Dining

Book:High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic

Source: High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic

“Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.”

Ifs Men Sleep Pleasure Source Morality Labor Innocent Forbidden Fountain Relaxation Maxims Recreation Intervals Liable Intemperance

Author:Orville Dewey

“Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. The same applies to pleasures of the sight. And the same applies to pleasures of the ear.”

Ifs World Said Enjoy Memories Pleasure This World Drink Blessing Ears Sight Blessed Fruit Breathe Grass Scent Sage Fragrance Spices Beverages Aroma Before And After Reciting

Author:Shmuel Yosef Agnon

“The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.”

“Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.”

Ifs Needs Feelings Perfect Pleasure Elements Plant Metaphor Satisfaction Peaceful Gardening Need You

Author:Jane Kaczmarek

“Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.”

Ifs Writing Kind Term Pleasure Novel Worldly Novel Writing

Author:Barbara Pym

“Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.”

Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

“If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.”

Ifs Loses Pleasure Edges

Author:Nora Roberts

“We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.”

Ifs Suffering Universe Pleasure Buddhism Add

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.”

Ifs World Way Should Spirit Order Enjoy Water My Own Pleasure Teach Wine Glasses Humble Chalice

Book:Either/or

Source: Either/or

“Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.”

Ifs Men Pleasure

Book:Resolves: divine, moral and political

Source: Resolves: divine, moral and political

“To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things.”

People Ifs Way Believe Important Seems Life Is Joy Belief Enjoy Pleasure Good Things Disappointment Be Good Incapable Occasional Life Happiness Joy And Happiness Cynic

Book:It's Been a Good Life

Source: It's Been a Good Life

“'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.”

Ifs Men Needs Feels Writing Doe Pleasure Talking Please Busy Shops Too Busy Please Me

Author:William Faulkner

“If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you.”

People Ifs Mind Moments Body Pleasure Security Comfort Waking

Author:Byron Katie

“New York City is like the appetizer table at a Jewish wedding, loaded with salt and spice and cholesterol and flavor, with a waiter holding out pleasure in his right hand and indigestion in his left. If you've got the bucks, this burg has the bangs.”

Ifs Hands Left Pleasure Cities New York Tables New York City Salt Flavor Bangs Bucks Spices Loaded Waiter Indigestion Cholesterol Appetizers

Author:Leonore Fleischer

“Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.”

Ifs Self Purpose Pleasure Emotion Brain Emotional Anger Blow Cruelty Poison Destructive Substitutes Justification Justified Triggers Loathing Self Loathing Tornadoes

Author:G. Frank Lawlis

“The goal in tasting wine is not to "find" the same aromas and flavors some other taster is describing. If you hone your own perceptual abilities and develop the vocabulary to articulate them, you'll not only derive more pleasure from the wine itself, but also stimulate better communication between you and the friends who are sharing the bottle.”

Ifs Goal Ability Pleasure Communication Wine Bottles Vocabulary Flavor Describing Tasting Aroma

Author:Marvin Shanken

“Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.”

Ifs Men Firsts Said Done Law Pleasure Materials Birth Activity First Time Sells Slave Profit Deny Thanks Enjoyment Display Dishes Said And Done Deployment Lentils

Author:African Spir

“I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn't care, because it was all about them.”

Ifs Persons Stills Self Care Wanted Pain Felt Pleasure Identity Dignity Died Uncomfortable Self Respect

Author:Jess C Scott

“Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.”

Ifs Hands Would Be Pain Left Pleasure Doors Sensibility

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.”

Ifs Women Pleasure Sun Flower Enjoyed

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.”

Ifs Happiness Hours Pleasure Situation Borrowed Allowance

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.”

Ifs Pleasure Acting Knowing Guilty Release Rude Guilty Pleasure Being Rude

Author:Laurence Fox

“Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it is horrible! - that one man may own twenty millions of money, and another has to commit a crime to keep the life in his miserable body. And if I were wealthy, I'd be a spendthrift! It's the spendthrifts who are the real friends of the poor. Some of their money filters through to the very lowest classes.”

“A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense.”

Ifs Giving Mean Done Certain Pleasure Please Female Thirds Memoir Volume Offense Undertakings Female Writers

Author:Laetitia Pilkington

“People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People adore the one who encourages them to display their conversational wares and admires the display.”

People Ifs Giving Pleasure Extremes Clever Admire Invites Display Adore

Author:Margery Wilson

“Once you walk off the set, if you're an actor, the rest isn't your responsibility, which I like a lot. I'm not responsible for the final product, which is why it's always a pleasure when you see it's in the hands of the people afterwards putting it together.”

People Ifs Hands Together Actors Walks Pleasure Responsibility Products Responsible Finals

Author:Justin Kirk

“The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.”

People Ifs Two Character Film Pleasure Talking Situation Knowing Seeing Shots Tables Irony Classic Bombs Hitchcock People Talking Knowing More

Author:Richard Ayoade

“There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and the love of action. If the former is refined by art and learning, improved by the charms of social intercourse, and corrected by a just regard to economy, to health, and to reputation, it is productive of the greatest part of the happiness of private life.”

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V1: the History Focus

“It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's true-unless it isn't true either that the Devil is a gentleman. If the Devil has no class at all, then okay, I agree: He gets a bang out of suicide. Because suicide is a mess. As a subject for study, suicide is perhaps uniquely incoherent. And the act itself is without shape and without form. The human project implodes, contorts inward-shameful, infantile, writhing, gesturing. It's a mess in there.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Long Said Form Used Pleasure Class Study Special Subjects Shapes Projects Devil Okay Agree Suicide Used To Be Mess Gentleman Satan Long Ago Inward Bangs Shameful Infantile

Author:Martin Amis

“If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Ideas Pleasure Better Off Questionable

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Sensory experience does not offset the intense pain or pleasure we feel on a mental level; it may distract us, but doesn't overcome it. On the other hand, if we have peace of mind, even negative experiences do not upset us. Peace of mind is also good for our physical health. Medical experts have found that anger, hatred and fear eat into our immune system. Being calm and relaxed is better for our physical well-being.”

“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.”

“The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.”

Ifs Way Self Bigs Strong Pleasure Movement Buddhism News Enlightenment Discovery Self Discovery Very Strong Unlikely Big News

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness.”

“If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!”

Ifs Giving Pleasure Give Me Honour

Author:Benito Mussolini

“Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that”

Ifs Want Wells Doe Ideas Matter Happens Pleasure Boys Break One Thing Beats Sake Oneself Connected Things Happen Get Away Somewhere Else Nothing Matters

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. To do that duty you need to have more than one trait. From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.”

“If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.”

Ifs Giving Reason Pleasure Give Me Expensive Worth It Orchids

Author:Lee Radziwill

“If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within you, the secret mainspring that alone gave meaning to life, the thing within us that alone is living, alone is capable of feeling pleasure and pain, of craving happiness and experiencing it- that was unknown. You knew nothing about that, nothing at all, and if the mainspring failed there was no cure. Wasn't it insane?”

Source: Kingsor's Last Summer

“If you want to be powerful in life you have to enjoy the process. You have to get pleasure out of making the thing that you're making. There has to be that kind of purpose behind it. If your purpose is simply gaining power, if that becomes your end in life then you end up sort of destroying yourself because you lose the sense of detachment that's very necessary.”

Ifs Want Kind Ends Purpose Process Enjoy Loses Pleasure Powerful Behinds Destroying Detachment Gaining Power Destroying Yourself

Author:Robert Greene

“I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.”

Ifs Giving Wells Book Dies Pleasure Education Study Honest Treats Amusement Live Well

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

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