Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

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

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

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

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

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.

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

The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

The fact is, ministry is too unpredictable to be motivated by security. It’s too unprofitable to be motivated by money. It’s too demanding to be motivated by pleasure, and it’s too criticized to be motivated by fame. Our ministry should be motivated by the pleasure of God, and God is pleased when we have a ministry powered by faith.

The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.

The finest pleasure is kindness to others.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.

The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

The great source of pleasure is variety.

The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent.

The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

The hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men.

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 impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

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 key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

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

The lips of the one I love are my perpetual 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.