It is strange how many things will happen to intercept every pleasure, though it be only that of two friends meeting together.
Samuel Johnson Quotes
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
So few of the hours of life are filled up with objects adequate to the mind of man, and so frequently are we in want of present pleasure or employment, that we are forced to have recourse every moment to the past and future for supplemental satisfactions, and relieve the vacuities of our being by […]
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
No man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
For we who live to please must please to live.
He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
Let no man rashly determine, that his unwillingness to be pleased is a proof of understanding, unless his superiority appears from less doubtful evidence; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit, it is much oftener of base extraction, the child of vanity and nursling of ignorance.
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
