Pleasure Quotes

Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.

There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.

Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.

I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.

Shalvis makes me laugh, makes me cry, makes me sigh with pure pleasure.

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.

I like drawing. I like to spend the day drawing, the process is important for me. Drawing is a just a pleasure and it's nice to keep it going.

Well I looked in my moms closet and saw what I was getting for Christmas, an ultravibe pleasure 2000.

We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.

It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.

The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

Business first; pleasure afterwards.

While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.

Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure.

when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

Love not Pleasure; love God.

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?

The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.

Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?