Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

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 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.

So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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

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

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 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 best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing my personal fantasy, whether it's a fantasy of pleasure or of pain and fear.

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

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity.