Ends Quote by David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his…

— Anonymous

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

— Marcel Proust

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure…

— Baltasar Gracian

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

— Stephen King

A man is not capable of giving the way a woman gives. She is stronger. When a woman sacrifices, it lends her grace and…

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.

— Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

— Muriel Spark

Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.

— John Steinbeck

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

— Michael Shaara

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the…

— W. Somerset Maugham