Pleasure Quotes

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.

Anyone that enjoys his work is a pleasure to work with.

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!

I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.

Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish - pleasure, success, fortune - is measured in time.

Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.

Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.

I hope people enjoy what I do. That would make me happy because I'd be bringing others pleasure while doing something I like.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

There are orphans who can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake; for it brings them more work than they care to do, leaving them but little time for their own pleasure.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

All change is nothing but a decision. All decisions are controlled by what we link to pain and pleasure.

Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring.

One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.

Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Sometimes I think I’m the last remaining person who goes to the shows for the pleasure of seeing the clothes, rather than desperately wanting to be there for the social side

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends.