Pleasure Quotes

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.

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

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.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

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.

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

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

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]

I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a monk who lives in a temple on Jusan Pond surrounded only by nature.

There is no greater pleasure than having a dog. And that's a scientific fact!

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.

At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

The next greatest pleasure to love is to talk of love.

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.

I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

Wouldn't it be good to forget everything even if it's just for tonight? Indulge in pleasure... breathe a sweet poison deep into your lungs.

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

I love it when people have pleasure working and when there is respect. That's what I love.

All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of food and drink.

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.

You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.