Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

No, I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it.

No one ever came to Christ because they knew themselves to be of the elect. It is quite true that God has of his mere good pleasure elected some to everlasting life, but they never knew it until they came to Christ. Christ nowhere invites the elect to come to Him. The question for you is not, Am I one of the elect? But, Am I one of the human race?

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness

Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.

Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

Of troubles know I none, Of pleasures know I many - I rove beneath the sun, Without a single penny.

Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!

Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.

Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.

Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.