Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring.

Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.

La volupte   unique et supre"  me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.

La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.

Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

Love not Pleasure; love God.

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.

Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain. Most of all, it's very enjoyable to express something that you can only hear and not see, which is not bad.

Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.

Making the effort is quite a pleasure in itself.

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

Marketing is all about providing information that will heighten someone's anticipated and real pleasure.

Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.

Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

My guilty pleasure is Simon & Garfunkel. I'm embarrassed about it. They're dorky.

My guiltiest pleasure is... chocolates with strawberry cream and trashy television - 'Geordie Shore,' 'Katie,' etc.

Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.

Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374

Music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so again I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

My guilty pleasure is One Direction.