I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.
Roy Acuff
Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.
Arthur Adamov
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Joseph Addison
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
Isabelle Adjani
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
Mortimer Adler
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
Theodor Adorno
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
Alvin Ailey
A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.
Sholom Aleichem
The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
Jason Alexander