Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.

Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.

Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.

To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken of the Creator. God has a voluntary relationg to everything He has made, but He has no Necessary relation to anything outside of Himself. His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can dring to Him who is complete in himself.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

To go about your work with pleasure, to greet others with a word of encouragement, to be happy in the present and confident in the future; this is to have achieved some measure of success in living.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

To find pleasure in life, make the most of the spring.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

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

Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

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

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.

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.

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

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