Pastoral Resources

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.