Pleasure Quotes

My guiltiest pleasure is... chocolates with strawberry cream and trashy television - 'Geordie Shore,' 'Katie,' etc.

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.

Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.

I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before all, music is made of fun and pleasure and excitement.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.

It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.

my pleasure was in the strength of my back, in my noble shoulders, the cool smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.

The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Pleasure is the bait of sin

If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its pleasure in our way or in any way we can now understand.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

How much pleasure can you stand?

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.

I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.