Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked. "Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of that. I suppose it does. What other pleasure can a creature have whose life consists of making everyone else miserable?

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and contribute to the realisation of your goal or ideal.

Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.

Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses.

Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.

Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.

Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.

Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

Each must drain His share of pleasure, share of pain.

Dustin Hoffman takes such pleasure in what he does and there's nothing tense about him. He exudes joy and passion for what he's doing and that infects everyone. It certainly put me at ease coming to work with him every day. I felt his confidence and freedom rubbed off. He doesn't censor himself or stop an idea because he thinks it might be wrong.

Dressing is a pleasure; clothes are not a joke.

economy spoils pleasure

Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

Even pleasure cloys without variety.

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.

Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love, without pleasure.

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.

Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure.

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.