The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Lord Chesterfield

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
William Congreve

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
William Congreve

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Margaret Fuller

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
Michael Korda

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Sophocles

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
Sophocles

I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
Barry Sanders

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
Isabelle Adjani

Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity.
Guy Laliberte

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Jane Grey

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
Camille Paglia

He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Xenophon

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
Italo Calvino

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean de La Fontaine

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean de La Fontaine

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock