Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

I had sold my soul for pleasure.

I have a lot of pleasures but I don't feel guilty about them.

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.

I have discovered that I cannot ignore the infliction of suffering - especially for my convenience or pleasure! It's as if a puppy is being kicked in front of me. I must try to do something.

I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.

I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

I like drawing. I like to spend the day drawing, the process is important for me. Drawing is a just a pleasure and it's nice to keep it going.

I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.

I like mixing or combining hobby and pleasure with work and have-tos.

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

I'm just another Opry entertainer. I'm not the start of the Opry, and I'm not the ending. I'm not the Alpha, and I'm not the Omega. It's been a pleasure taking part in the Opry and country music these many years. I'm part of a big operation.

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected.

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.

In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begged the question of their efficacy and doomed itself to inconsequence.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.