Pleasure Quotes

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.

Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before

I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.

Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

Pleasure must be found in study.

The pleasure was all yours.

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

It was really a pleasure to play someone who’s literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.

Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.

Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.

As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.

So have a day of pleasure Do things that make you smile For .............. you are treasured Today and all the while.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.