Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

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

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

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.

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 Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense

The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.

There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.

There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.

The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.