Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

Business first, then pleasure.

But don’t you find the concept of love unusual? (Alix) Not at all. Love I understand completely. It’s hatred that puzzles me. I don’t comprehend finding pleasure in cruelty. (Vik)

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

Buying is profound pleasure.

Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Christmas dresser feeling pleasure

Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.

Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked. "Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of that. I suppose it does. What other pleasure can a creature have whose life consists of making everyone else miserable?

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.

Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses.

Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and contribute to the realisation of your goal or ideal.

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.

Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.

Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.

Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.