Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond well - it's a pleasure.

If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.

If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

I have a lot of pleasures but I don't feel guilty about them.

I had sold my soul for pleasure.

I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

I have discovered that I cannot ignore the infliction of suffering - especially for my convenience or pleasure! It's as if a puppy is being kicked in front of me. I must try to do something.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

I like drawing. I like to spend the day drawing, the process is important for me. Drawing is a just a pleasure and it's nice to keep it going.

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

I like mixing or combining hobby and pleasure with work and have-tos.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.

I'm just another Opry entertainer. I'm not the start of the Opry, and I'm not the ending. I'm not the Alpha, and I'm not the Omega. It's been a pleasure taking part in the Opry and country music these many years. I'm part of a big operation.

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected.

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.

In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begged the question of their efficacy and doomed itself to inconsequence.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.