Pleasure Quotes

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.

Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.

What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Don't ever turn down pleasure because you were afraid of what other people might say.

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.

Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself. Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don't make yourself a victim of yourself!

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

God’s will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure.

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.

The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient to the pleasure of showing one's brilliance.

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.

Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.