Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

The level at which my OCD enters my writing process isn't that I slap the keyboard - it's more along the lines of a compulsive need to swap syllables around, rework words and sentences - I revise for the pleasure and satisfaction of it, rather than out of a sense of duty.

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.

The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.

The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.

The more armed we are with information about the seduction of technology, the more we can build systems to better deal with it. I had no idea that I got a hit of dopamine, which is the pleasure hormone that also governs addiction, every time that little email bing goes off.

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going against the grain of one's sex.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert.

The next greatest pleasure to love is to talk of love.

The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.

The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

The only pleasure of endurance is its past tense.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

The pleasure is our choice.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.

The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.