"I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen."

"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."

"Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life."

"I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being."

"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."

"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."

"Self - complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause"

"Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself."

"The world today doesn't please me."

"Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something"

"The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures"

"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader."

"How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure."

"O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!"

"...pleasure at hearing what all of us wanted to hear at least occasionally: that there was somebody who liked us, whatever our faults, and liked us sufficiently to say so. "

"No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many."

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

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

"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in."

"Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year."

"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

Real are the dreams of gods, and soothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream.