Pleasure Quotes

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.

Fun doesn't have anything to do with pleasure, necessarily. I think this will be terrifically unintuitive for people.

We're used to thinking of fun as a sort of synonym for light pleasure.

Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears.

Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every pleasure, every pain — nothing is spared them.

I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

Improvisation has been with me since I was a kid, and, taking a selfish pleasure from that, I just thought, "What the hell. It might as well be something other people enjoy."

It's my pleasure and honor to be here fighting on HBO and in the United States.

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.

Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed. You're merely an extra in the production.

The finest pleasure is kindness to others.

There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.

In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.

Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.

Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance.

Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.

I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.