Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments.

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.

Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the utmost pleasure for the dedicated.

We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.

We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce.

We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

We must accept all of Gods will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from the point of view of the environment. But when you start getting down, it's like the recycling question: What are things we can really afford to do, and how much pleasure do we get out of them? We haven't even started to have that discussion, and it's getting awfully late.

We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!