Pleasure Quotes

After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right, it's still a pleasure.

I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with line as a thing. It becomes a servant of his pleasure.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just for the pleasure of the eye.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it.

The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.

It was a pleasure to burn.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.

I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then walking after it! An then ..hitting it again!

In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.

I want to be remembered for my football and the pleasure I gave people.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.

A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.

I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.

Even pleasure cloys without variety.

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

My Pleasure is my business

Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.

There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

No pleasure here on earth I find For in this world I'm bound to ramble.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.