Pleasure Quotes

The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments.

Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

Not to sound too deep or weird, but I assume that the occasions once you pretty take pleasure in surfing are the occasions you are extremely kind of getting a single with nature.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.

Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love, without pleasure.

I love the show 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia;' that's probably a guilty pleasure! I laugh so hard.

Safe men are for marrying. Dangerous men are for pleasure.

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.

This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!

I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.

How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the midwives of intelligence.

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing.

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.

Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection

But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will take all the rest of the day.

Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.

We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.

I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.