Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Come come leave business to idlers and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty and pleasure my occupation and let father Time shake his glass.

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends his pleasures patrons and acquaintances are his capital.

To me business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world and droop. Sick of its business of its pleasures tired how gracious how benign is solitude.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone and that's fine.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey at a mild season through a pleasant country in easy stages.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

For the greater beauty of the instrument the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness but so contrived that they may be taken off at pleasure and others much smaller and fitter for some purposes put in their places.

Instead it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity and chose the bitter truth.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love but for pleasure it degrades the seeker.

Beauty and brains pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.