Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

You were given your sensuality for the joy you may give in return.

1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.

After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

Ah! si l'on o"  tait les chime'  res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?

Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.

A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may.

A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.

A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live.

All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals

All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.

All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well!

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.

And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings.

All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.