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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Benjamin Franklin

Family

Pleasure

Sorrow

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Jean de La Fontaine

Pleasure

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Jean de La Fontaine

Pleasure

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

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

William Feather

Business

Pleasure

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Michael Faraday

Pleasure

Reason

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

Juan Manuel Fangio

Passion

Pleasure

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.