"What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim."

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"Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love."But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Pleasure, Life, Joy, Travel

"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Pleasure,

"Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long."

Marty Rubin, American Author

Pleasure, Life, Joy, Truth

"Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all."

Arthur Adamov, Russian Playwright

Pleasure,

"Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure."

Rex Harrison, British Actor

Pleasure, Tomorrow

"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Pleasure, Reading

"The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn't had any since Texas. He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, a bloody slab of cow haunch, a hen's sinewy skeleton; these ghosts have been minced and destroyed and painlessly merged with the shapes of insensate vegetables, plump green bodies that invite his appetite's innocent gusto. Candy."

John Updike, American Novelist

Pleasure, Food, Desire, Innocence

"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Pleasure, Uniqueness, Emotion, Experience

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

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

Pleasure, Reading

"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."

Woody Allen, American Director

Pleasure, Fun, Sex, Enjoyment, Humor

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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."

"Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long."

"Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all."

"Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure."

"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."

"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."

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

"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."

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"Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."

"Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior."

"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."

"Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts."

"The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased."

"His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world."

"The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate."

"A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."

"Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it."

"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."