Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness and only what is useless is pleasurable.

A string of excited fugitive miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment when the picture of one's life or of human life as it truly has been or is satisfies the will and is gladly accepted.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth We are happy when we are growing.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

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

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality please give them back.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history the stage of rule by brute force.

If you pursue good with labor the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.