Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne Westwood

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Gottfried Leibniz

In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
George Will

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
Charles Eames

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
John Donne

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Bernard Baruch

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
William S. Burroughs

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
David Hume

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
Kinky Friedman

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.
Martin Van Buren

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart Mill

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
John Stuart Mill

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
John Stuart Mill

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
John Stuart Mill

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
Simone Weil