Pastoral Resources

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

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

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.