Pleasure Quotes

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

The only pleasure of endurance is its past tense.

The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.

Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

I pride myself on being fairly polite on a set so it's kind of a guilty pleasure to poke others on the set.

Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We feel the good time is well-nigh past.

Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.

Who pleases one against his will.

Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.

How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?

Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'.

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.

Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.

No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.

Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund

Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.

That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.

All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.

'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'

By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.

As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.

When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order for me to feel this pleasure."

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

"Community" came to be seen as a chat-group: you switch on as long as your pleasure lasts, then push another button and switch off. Very easy to go in and out, join and leave.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings.

The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.

It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

How do we get our values so mixed up? We look for shortcuts to happiness. Our lust for immediate pleasure prompts us to think of evil as good.

There is legitimate pleasure, which is not wrong, but we are not to become so preoccupied with its activities that it takes the place of God.

We have at our fingertips every pleasure that man is capable of enjoying, and man has abused every gift God ever gave him.

We are like a restless sea, finding a little peace here and a little pleasure there, but nothing permanent and satisfying. So the search continues!