Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

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 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 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 intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

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

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 reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

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

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

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

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

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

The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

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 the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

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 derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.

The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature.

The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

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 price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.

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.

The pleasure is our choice.