Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

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

She let him know how much she liked what he was doing by scoring his back with her nails and crying out with pleasure. "Oh, God." "Nay, lass. Connor.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

Show yourself more human than critical, and then your Pleasure will increase.

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

Since Reagan, it's almost impossible to get funding for research on sexual pleasure. You can find sexual behavior research, but not sexual pleasure. And let alone lesbian or homosexual sexuality.

Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at least at the start of the meal when you can concentrate and enjoy the full flavors.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

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 the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Sweet is pleasure after 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?

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

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

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.

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.

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!

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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.

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

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.

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.