Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny.

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.

Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence

Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.

Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder.

Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

Business first, then pleasure.

Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

But don’t you find the concept of love unusual? (Alix) Not at all. Love I understand completely. It’s hatred that puzzles me. I don’t comprehend finding pleasure in cruelty. (Vik)

Buying is a profound pleasure.

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.

Buying is profound pleasure.

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure.

Christmas dresser feeling pleasure

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.