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“The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.”

Pleasure Position Ridiculous Expenses Fleeting

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.”

Knows Women Pleasure Study Position Instruments Strings Delightful Trembling Keyboards Capricious

Book:Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life

Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life

“If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure - because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society - then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.”

Ifs Looks May Night Pleasure Morning Position Taught Shapes Authority Despite Saturday Monday Taught Us Saturday Night Monday Morning Purposelessness Hedonist

Author:Clive Barker

“Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.”

Funny Pleasure Position Consequence Intercourse Overrated Momentary Pastime

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.”

Pleasure Position Elements

Author:Susan Sontag

“I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being alive is a pleasure and a miracle. They feel like moments when the shutters of the mind are open so I can look out. It also feels as if those same shutters have no hooks to fix them in an open position. One small wind and bang-they slam shut.”

Source: Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness

“Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting wines”

Pleasure Position Wine Expertise Cognitive Sensory Tasting

Author:Kent Bach

“I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.”

Knows Men Pain Pleasure Position Bears Sorrow Men And Women Horizontal

Book:The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. And A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy ... With Life of the Author by Sir Walter Scott, Portrait, and Outline Wood Engravings After Thomas Stothard

Source: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. And A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy ... With Life of the Author by Sir Walter Scott, Portrait, and Outline Wood Engravings After Thomas Stothard

“Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential palace. My first position in the union was that of sports secretary.”

Firsts Sports Pleasure Position Drink Unions Alcohol Smoke Presidential Secretary Palaces Greatest Pleasures Playing Sports

Author:Evo Morales

“People know that fame and position are pleasant, but they do not know that the pleasure of anonymity is most real. People know that hunger and cold are distressing, but they do not know that the distress of not experiencing cold or hunger is greater.”

People Knows Real Pleasure Greater Position Cold Fame Hunger Pleasant Taoism Distress Anonymity Distressing

Author:Zicheng Hong