Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.

The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening.

The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.

The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.

The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

The worst drug of all is seriousness versus humor and pleasure!

The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.

This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken of the Creator. God has a voluntary relationg to everything He has made, but He has no Necessary relation to anything outside of Himself. His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can dring to Him who is complete in himself.

To find pleasure in life, make the most of the spring.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

To go about your work with pleasure, to greet others with a word of encouragement, to be happy in the present and confident in the future; this is to have achieved some measure of success in living.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.