Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

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.

Dressing is a pleasure; clothes are not a joke.

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.

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

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

economy spoils pleasure

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

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

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

Even pleasure cloys without variety.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection

Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.

Football is my guilty pleasure.

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.