I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
Hilaire Belloc

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
Hilaire Belloc

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Mary Wilson Little

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine Mansfield

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.
Robertson Davies

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
William Feather

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
Edward Thorndike

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.
James Naismith

I find pleasure in things that are simple.
Stephan Jenkins

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
Eric Liddell

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.
Piers Anthony

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
Mason Cooley

I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.
Lester B. Pearson

Work is both my living and my pleasure.
Harlan Howard

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Edward Young

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig

How delicious is pleasure after torment!
Pierre Corneille

Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Aphra Behn

When I portray Stabler, I have to shave every day and cut my hair every week! And then, I really like to change my looks for films like 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle' where I have the pleasure of playing the ugliest man in the world.
Christopher Meloni