Pleasure Quotes

It is true that 'I seem to see a table' does not entail 'I see a table'; but 'I seem to feel a pain' does entail 'I feel a pain'. So scepticism loses its force - cannot open up its characteristic gap - with regard to that which ultimately most concerns us, pleasure and pain.

Galen Strawson
- Pain
- Concern
- Scepticism
I adore gelato; it's a pleasure I shared for years with my friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Monica Vitti
- Friend
- Adore
- Gabriel

There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.

Aristotle
- Choice
- Noble
- Pleasant
Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.

Andy Rooney
- People
- Feeling
- Feelings
Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

Finley Peter Dunne
- Work
- Paid
- Allowed
There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.

Alan Alda
- Life
- Happy
- Helpful
Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.

Epictetus
- Pain
- Pleasure
- Say
Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton
- Work
- Trying
- Patience