There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

There is always time for failure.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere.

Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.

A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

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

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

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.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

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

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.