Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure.

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.

Football is my guilty pleasure.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

Garry Hill is a pleasure to be around, and his work is a rewarding reflection of my career.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

God’s will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him.

Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.