Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

Marketing is all about providing information that will heighten someone's anticipated and real pleasure.

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.

Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.

moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.

Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so again I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

My guilty pleasure is Simon & Garfunkel. I'm embarrassed about it. They're dorky.

My guilty pleasure is One Direction.

My guiltiest pleasure is... chocolates with strawberry cream and trashy television - 'Geordie Shore,' 'Katie,' etc.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.

My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.

My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.

Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

No one ever came to Christ because they knew themselves to be of the elect. It is quite true that God has of his mere good pleasure elected some to everlasting life, but they never knew it until they came to Christ. Christ nowhere invites the elect to come to Him. The question for you is not, Am I one of the elect? But, Am I one of the human race?

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.