“The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.” PainSufferingPleasureForeverBirthLifetimeRoundsEndlessWheelsHinduismLife DeathSentient BeingsBirth And Death Author:Frederick Lenz
“Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?” PassionPleasureVirtueRoundsIngredients Author:John Milton
“Men like to pleasure us, girl. They like to undo our plaits and give us water to drink from their own mouths. That's what makes the world go round.” MenWorldGivingGirlWaterPleasureDrinkMouthsRoundsPlaits Book:Lorca Plays: 1: Blood Wedding; Yerma; Dona Rosita the Spinster Source: Lorca Plays: 1: Blood Wedding; Yerma; Dona Rosita the Spinster
“"One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. "Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are - ha!" - Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe - "no more than robots!"” PeopleMayChildrenLongDoneJobsLawPleasureAdvantageTablesBlindRoundsObedienceRobotsPipeDronesBlind Obedience Author:Iain Banks
“Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.” EyePleasureMinesMountainRiversRoundsCloudsCaughtWideLandscapeBreastsShallowGreyFlocksLawnsBrooksBarrenMeadowsDaisiesNibbling Author:John Milton
“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.” IfsWantLooksHeartLittlesRealDesireWealthPleasureConditionsMankindIndustryRemainsFortuneRoundsConvincedSatisfiedEaseHatedAbundanceIdleOppressedImpatientDespisedEagernessLuxuriousSolicitude Author:Samuel Johnson
“Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.” SaidTodayLyingSpeakLanguagePleasureLaughingReturnBearsTomorrowLowsFellowsRoundsIllTreatedEaseUnusualContestsViciousDisagreeableAbusiveCato Author:Seneca the Younger