Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

One of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833.

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being.

One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.

Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a fragment, whereas the whole and the complete and the perfect are basically abhorrent.

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children; He chastens them in love; He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare; He inflicts it to purify as well as to punish, to caution as well as to cure, to improve as well as to chastise.

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

Paris, the FedEx deliveryman of Pleasure and Fatality.

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

Part of the pleasure of any kind of walking for me is the very idea of going somewhere-by foot.

Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.