Pleasure Quotes
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.
Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.
Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.
Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in His creation.
Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies are as fatal as Pleasure alone when she infects the mind.
What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.
Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.
Nothing in all the world is so good as the knowledge and love of Christ, and no pleasure that can be enjoyed equal to the joy of serving Him with all one's heart.
Endeavors that help me satisfy you, my goddess of desire, pleasure, and corny one-liners.
The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.
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.
I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.
It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and much of our pleasure.
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.
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.
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.
The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.
A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.
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.
