Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.

There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest.

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.

There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you can do anything to me, take everything away, put me in prison, but I will know [her] when we are old.

There will be no feeding problems because you can either eat for pleasure, or you don't have to eat at all!

The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her at our pleasure.

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

The second greatest pleasure after love is talking about it.

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.

These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

The sexual drive is nothing but the motor memory of previously remembered pleasure.

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

The subtle performances of the leads, the remarkable Irrfan Khan and the engaging Nimrat Kaur, make 'The Lunchbox' a pleasure to watch.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.

The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening.

The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.

The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.

The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

The worst drug of all is seriousness versus humor and pleasure!

The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

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.

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.

These heels are candy for the feet; they’re for pleasure, not practicality.

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