I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me.
Difficult or easy, pleasant or bitter, you are the same: I cannot live with you - or without you.
In the misfortune of our best friends we always find something which is not displeasing to us.
In the family must master: the love, conception will, order, consciousness of duty. Not the pleasure, but pure joy, produced by the beauty of ideal. Between God and my people
To love is not enough, you should know to teach other too, the art of love. Pleasure can be felt by plebs and even animals. But, a true man is different from animals, just because of this. He...
I don't know the key of success, but the key of failure is to try to please everyone.
Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead: therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everyone knows it and everyone forgets it.
I did not realize that mother nature took care of everything, that a pleasure will be replaced by a previous one, in the same way as, beside pleasure, another sorrow comes to replace the previous...
Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.
Use the chance. Close your eyes and approach to yourself that thing you have achieved. It will be something great, possibly life, or maybe death, but undoubtedly it will please you. Ugly thing is...
Thank you, beloved mother Thank you, beloved mother my star from dawn! without you I am afraid that the planet would get colder. I have worn your vigor, you have grown me, you have blossomed me...
To the Moon Oh gracious moon, now as the year turns, I remember how, heavy with sorrow, I climbed this hill to gaze on you, And then as now you hung above those trees Illuminating all. But to my...
The bitterer truth is better than the most pleasant error.
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
It’s a lovely looking little thing with a stylish nose and tapering windows. I think you would feel fairly pleased to have one sitting on your drive.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.