Pleasure Quotes
Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.
Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.
It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people care about the kind of music I'm making.
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.
What do we value most? What would we most hate to lose? What do our thoughts turn to most frequently when we are free to think of what we will? And finally, what affords us the greatest pleasure?
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.
Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.
What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.
Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.
The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.
Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!
It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.
Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.
The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.
George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.
Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.
Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.
Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.
Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.
I like to watch MTV for escapist pleasure, but when I saw Snooki, I saw my twin. I couldn't lose myself in the show anymore because there I was.
The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.
If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond well - it's a pleasure.
But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.
Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.
If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.