All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening. Alexander Woollcott Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome.
Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
Thomas Carlyle Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. . . . John Keats Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. S ren Kierkegaard Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free. The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. Roland Barthes Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.