Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

Garry Hill is a pleasure to be around, and his work is a rewarding reflection of my career.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

God’s will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him.

God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure.

Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

Happiness is the DNA of pleasure. My point is simply this: Pleasure comes from something on the outside. Happiness comes from within. It's a state you create by choice. It's a decision. It's an act of will.

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.

Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves;Knightis and Barons live for pleasure and themselves.

He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.

He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

He bit the inside of his cheek, Death purring wildy. The pleasure of her touch, even one so innocent, rocked him to the core.

He really just wanted to go about his business. I would put Eddie Murray in the same category as Andre Dawson. He would like to kid around with the press and (be surly), but he was a total professional. I see why he is a Hall of Famer. I am just glad I had the pleasure of playing for Eddie (Murray) for one year.

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

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the midwives of intelligence.

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY Thou are worthy, O Lord and our God, the Holy One, to receive the glory and the honour and the power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.

I actually have a lot of guilty pleasures.

I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.

I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.

I am against the florists and floristry! Let the flowers not be the toys of our pleasures!

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.