Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.

The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

The great source of pleasure is variety.

The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent.

The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

The hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.

The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

The level at which my OCD enters my writing process isn't that I slap the keyboard - it's more along the lines of a compulsive need to swap syllables around, rework words and sentences - I revise for the pleasure and satisfaction of it, rather than out of a sense of duty.

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

The more armed we are with information about the seduction of technology, the more we can build systems to better deal with it. I had no idea that I got a hit of dopamine, which is the pleasure hormone that also governs addiction, every time that little email bing goes off.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going against the grain of one's sex.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert.