Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.

Happiness is the DNA of pleasure. My point is simply this: Pleasure comes from something on the outside. Happiness comes from within. It's a state you create by choice. It's a decision. It's an act of will.

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves;Knightis and Barons live for pleasure and themselves.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

He bit the inside of his cheek, Death purring wildy. The pleasure of her touch, even one so innocent, rocked him to the core.

He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.

He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

He really just wanted to go about his business. I would put Eddie Murray in the same category as Andre Dawson. He would like to kid around with the press and (be surly), but he was a total professional. I see why he is a Hall of Famer. I am just glad I had the pleasure of playing for Eddie (Murray) for one year.

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY Thou are worthy, O Lord and our God, the Holy One, to receive the glory and the honour and the power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.

How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the midwives of intelligence.

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

I actually have a lot of guilty pleasures.

I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.

I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.

I am against the florists and floristry! Let the flowers not be the toys of our pleasures!

I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there

I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me

Ice-T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.

I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.

I do my job. I love my job. It's the best job I ever had. And it's probably the best job I will ever have. And I serve at the pleasure of the president. That's true of President Obama. That will be true of President Trump. And if and when a president decides that they want to replace me, I'll ride off into the sunset.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.