Pleasure Quotes

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.

Bible

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

Hafiz

Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow.

George Edward Herbert

Follow pleasure and then will pleasure flee Flee pleasure and pleasure will follow thee.

We tire of those pleasures we take but never of those we give.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.

Bible

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

Hafiz

Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow.

George Edward Herbert

Follow pleasure and then will pleasure flee Flee pleasure and pleasure will follow thee.

We tire of those pleasures we take but never of those we give.

No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.

Anonymous

One's first book kiss home run is always the best.

Clifton Fadiman

Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.

1. If your stomach disputes you lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 2. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 3. Go very lightly on the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful.

Love and do what you like.

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

Maxwell Perkins

The physically fit can enjoy their vices.

The superfluous is very necessary.

Voltaire

There are three ingredients in the good life learning earning and yearning.

Christopher Morley

A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment where I long once more for desire.

Goethe

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Juvenal

Danger and delight grow on one stalk .

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

G.K. Chesterton

Pleasure for an hour a bottle of wine pleasure for a year marriage pleasure for a lifetime a garden.

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

Jean Paul Richter

The true spirit of delight the exultation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Bertrand Russell

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

What the mass media offer is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

Bertrand Russell

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

All the great pleasures in life are silent.

Georges Clémenceau

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

English Proverb

Every luxury must be paid for and everything is a luxury starting with being in the world.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

To really enjoy the better things in life one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

If you resolve to give up smoking drinking and loving you don't actually live longer it just seems longer.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

J. K. Galbraith

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.

After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.

She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political--for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible for us to come to the work of writing clearer, ready for the journey. (bell hooks about Toni Cade Bambara)

Epicurus said you should live for pleasure - adding that nothing brings more pleasure than a little sun and a glass of water. It is on this principle that our conjugal existence has rested for three years, devoted to making love, reading, eating excellent meals, spending a few days in a nice hotel by the sea, visiting out friends (not very many, all without children), going to concerts and movies, sleeping, cultivating our garden.

Benoît Duteurtre

Happiness is the good life that is marked by flourishing well-being, joy, prosperity, peace, satisfaction, and pleasure.

Ogwo David Emenike

Work is so foundational to our makeup that it is one of the few things we can take in significant doses without harm. Indeed, the Bible does not say we should work one day and rest six or that work and rest should be balanced evenly but directs us to the opposite ratio. Leisure and pleasure are great goods, but we can take only so much of them.

Timothy J. Keller

For once you yourself cease to take pleasure in the common enjoyments of life, you hate the normal man who is so much more fortunate than yourself.

J.P.V.D. Balsdon

He glanced at her, his hair wild and his eyes red. 'May I give ye pleasure?'Still a gentleman. Emma smiled. But his voice sounded gruff and his appearance was that of an untamed barbarian. She grabbed handfuls of his hair and pulled his head close to hers. 'Make me scream.'His eyes gleamed hotter. 'Ye will. Many times ere the night is over.

Kerrelyn Sparks

It happened on a Valentine night.Chris was an expert panther, a James Bond. Sarah was a lamb, a Virgin Mary. It was a night of mixed feelings and inner conflict. In her flesh she felt walking on liquid gold; but in her mind, heart and soul she could not help but hate herself for partaking of this “forbidden fruit” of pleasure. Not long was the thrill gone that her soul went sinking in the quick sands of condemnation, “did you have to do it?

Moffat Machingura

The sense of love should not like coffee, which only gives pleasure to the enjoy. But it must be like oranges which not only give pleasure but also freshness.

Isra

What is another person's pleasure is another's poison.

Cassandra Clare

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

Richard von Krafft-Ebing

It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create an Image.

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