Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

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

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.

Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.

So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.

Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.

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

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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!

Thanks be to God, the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.

The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.