Ideas Quote by Michael Grant

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

— Neil Young

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

— Edward Young

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

— Agnes Repplier

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

“I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives…

— Iain M. Banks

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose…

— Marya Mannes

“He walked for days, stopping at bars and restaurants whenever he felt thirsty, hungry or tired; mostly they were automatic and he was served…

— Iain M. Banks

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

— Richard Steele

“What is wrong with me? How can I find pleasure from this man who is holding me against my will? What kind of sick,…

— C.D. Reiss

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

— Agnes Repplier

“Killing a man is indeed a pleasure unmatched in this world. Perhaps it’s a pleasure we could share.”

— Samuel Snoek-Brown