Pleasure Quotes

So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

I have a lot of pleasures but I don't feel guilty about them.

If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.

I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.

It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: ‘No. 1 in AMERICA’. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.

What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with. -Jeremy Malory-

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.

It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.

In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.

But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.

Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.

I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.

My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

I had the pleasure of listening to Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album on audio cassette, which had just come out at that time because I am an elderly man.

I came to feel how far above All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood, All earthly pleasure, all imagined good, Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss.

There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.

And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized.

All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.

The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.

Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

I like mixing or combining hobby and pleasure with work and have-tos.

There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.