„The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world, do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it with any pleasure.“
Samuel Pepys
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„Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.“
— Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States of America 1743 - 1826
„Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.“
— W. Somerset Maugham British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874 - 1965
The Trembling of a Leaf (1921), ch. 3
„Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.“
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Context: My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself - but as my own being;
Context: I can not express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of creation if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself - but as my own being; so, don't talk of our separation again - it is impracticable.
Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. IX).
„Girl, you don't know what you're puttin' through. It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you.“
— Tim McGraw American country singer 1967
It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You
„A cultured, sensitive, observant man is a pleasure to be with in any age.“
— Poul Anderson American science fiction and fantasy writer 1926 - 2001
Chapter 9 (p. 97)
„Well, I once wrote in - it's in Joan Mitchell Paints a Picture, as I remember, Irving Sandler, a long time ago, that I hated the word 'Nature' with a capital 'N.'... But now I accept it, I suppose. I mean, I really like trees and flowers and dogs and all that much more than.... a lot of other people [do]... You know, I really do get pleasure out of... Great pleasure. Out of just looking at... But I have fun here [New York] too, you know.“
— Joan Mitchell American painter 1925 - 1992
Tape number two, side A
„We enjoy no pleasure so much as we do tormenting ourselves.“
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838
„The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.“
— Walter Bagehot British journalist, businessman, and essayist 1826 - 1877
„The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.“
— Charles Lamb English essayist 1775 - 1834
Quoted in "Table Talk" http://books.google.com/books?id=LIxUAAAAcAAJ&q=%22greatest+pleasure+I+know+is+to+do+a+good+action+by+stealth+and+to+have+it+found+out+by+accident%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage in The Athenaeum magazine (4 January 1834).
„If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.“
— Anne Brontë British novelist and poet 1820 - 1849
Ch. VI : Progression; Gilbert to Mrs. Markham
„I love to write and I assure you I write regularly… But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.“
— Jerome David Salinger American writer 1919 - 2010
Interview in The Baton Rouge Advocate (1980), as quoted in "J.D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye,' dies" in The Washington Post (28 January 2010) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/28/AR2010012803177.html
„No, I never wish that. I don't intend to die till I've enjoyed my life. Everyone has a right to happiness and sooner or later I will have it. Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.“
— Louisa May Alcott American novelist 1832 - 1888
„Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?“
— Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story