Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

- Ambrose Bierce

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

- Alan Alda

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

- Alan Rickman

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

- Al Gore

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

- Aaron Burr

Whenever I was able to work with Hillary Clinton, it was a great pleasure.

- Angela Merkel

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

- Aldous Huxley

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

- Aldous Huxley

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

- Albert Camus

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

- Aldous Huxley

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

- Alan Watts

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

- Andrew Jackson

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

- Alvin Ailey

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

- Aristotle

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

- Alfred Hitchcock

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

- Auguste Rodin

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

- Albert Einstein