Pleasure Quotes

Welcome home, Rachel mariana Morgan, he said, his goat-slitted eyes holding a new, dangerous light. It's a pleasure to finally meet you.

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.

I hate the thought of animals being killed just for our pleasure...

Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.

We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing that seems to move.

I play for me and I play to win, but it gives me great pleasure to represent Mexico.

The second greatest pleasure after love is talking about it.

Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

My family, my fans and yes, romance is always there in one way or another. Life is full of these emotions and I have always found pleasure in incorporating them into my music.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.

I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.

Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.

It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from hatred.

The California constitution provides that our judges are elected, not appointed. They are serving at the pleasure of the people and they are accountable to the people.

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.

Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and blessing, as well as responsibility!

To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on the bridge of any ship while it is attacked by airplanes.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

All is not gold that glitters, Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

There is no small pleasure in pure water.

What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell