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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

Music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so again I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

My guilty pleasure is One Direction.

My guiltiest pleasure is... chocolates with strawberry cream and trashy television - 'Geordie Shore,' 'Katie,' etc.

My guilty pleasure is Simon & Garfunkel. I'm embarrassed about it. They're dorky.

My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.

My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.

My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

No, I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it.

No one ever came to Christ because they knew themselves to be of the elect. It is quite true that God has of his mere good pleasure elected some to everlasting life, but they never knew it until they came to Christ. Christ nowhere invites the elect to come to Him. The question for you is not, Am I one of the elect? But, Am I one of the human race?

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

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