Pleasure Quotes
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.
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.
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.
When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.
What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
I told myself over and over again, do it for its images, for the pleasure you get out of it. Do it for your friends If you get more, that's a bonus.
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
Invitation to Dance- It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark. May I have the pleasure?
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
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.
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.
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.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
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.
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.
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.
If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.
When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.