Pleasure Quotes

A simple right or left can mean life or death, Epic fail or nice success, Days of pleasure or nights of stress.

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

Pleasure itself is not a vice

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

It's a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.

But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more

More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.

Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.

Turn wishful thinking into positive action. Those who take a proactive stance in their lives tend to have an ample supply of joy and pleasure

I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.

I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure.

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.

Liev cares about a lot things. Israel is one of them. We had the good fortune of going there a couple of years ago. To share that experience with him was a great pleasure.