#pleasure

I wish somebody would combine tasers and dildos, and test the devices out on all the politicians in Washington DC. Well, all the politicians except Barney Frank, who’d actually derive pleasure from the experiment.
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— Jarod Kintz

#experiment #pleasure #politicians #politics #taser

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#calling #comes #countrymen #field #giving

I really don't have a guilty pleasure. ↗

— Ann Marie Buerkle

#guilty pleasure #i #pleasure #really

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#doubt #never #out #pain #pleasure

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. ↗

— Aaron Burr

#life #make #my life #pleasure #rule

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them. ↗

— Charles Buxton

#pleasant #pleasures #shortens #them

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer. ↗

— Simon Callow

#becoming #characters #find #great #great writer

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#clearly #could #i #lucky #morally

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#child #children #consider #deceiving #deception

Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like Mom used to say, sooner or later something's gonna get you. ↗

— David Sedaris

#pleasure #life