Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

Reading for pleasure isn’t separate from learning to read.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Safe men are for marrying. Dangerous men are for pleasure.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.

Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

Sexual pleasure is a legitimate right of the human being.

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

She let him know how much she liked what he was doing by scoring his back with her nails and crying out with pleasure. "Oh, God." "Nay, lass. Connor.

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

Show yourself more human than critical, and then your Pleasure will increase.

Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at least at the start of the meal when you can concentrate and enjoy the full flavors.

Since Reagan, it's almost impossible to get funding for research on sexual pleasure. You can find sexual behavior research, but not sexual pleasure. And let alone lesbian or homosexual sexuality.

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.

Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.

So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.