Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense

The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.

There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.

There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.

There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

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.

There is no greater pleasure than having a dog. And that's a scientific fact!

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

There is no pleasure that I haven't actually made myself sick on.

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

There is no small pleasure in pure water.

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.

There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest.

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

There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.

There will be no feeding problems because you can either eat for pleasure, or you don't have to eat at all!

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.