Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked. "Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of that. I suppose it does. What other pleasure can a creature have whose life consists of making everyone else miserable?

Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and contribute to the realisation of your goal or ideal.

Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses.

Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.

Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.

Dressing is a pleasure; clothes are not a joke.

Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

Dustin Hoffman takes such pleasure in what he does and there's nothing tense about him. He exudes joy and passion for what he's doing and that infects everyone. It certainly put me at ease coming to work with him every day. I felt his confidence and freedom rubbed off. He doesn't censor himself or stop an idea because he thinks it might be wrong.

Each must drain His share of pleasure, share of pain.

economy spoils pleasure

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

Even pleasure cloys without variety.

Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.

Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love, without pleasure.

Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.