Pleasure Quotes

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips

My idea of Heaven is what we've got right now, right here!-All this beauty and pleasure and fun and inspiration and spirit and fellowship and joy, all of this and more so and more of it!

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

God and eternal things are my only pleasure.

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.

Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.

Messi on the World Cup 2014? He showed why he is the best player in the world. It was a pleasure to see him play.

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

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

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

An item must have a soul, it must function properly, be nice to hold and a pleasure to look at

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength and wellbeing.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.

Pleasure is a manifestation of self-re-creation. Pleasure is worship because it replenishes the soul.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ.

There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.