Pleasure Quotes · Page 101

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

— Havelock Ellis

“Men were strictly for pleasure and for experimenting with versions of the self.”

— Margot Livesey

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

— Evan Esar

Coffee isn't just a source of pleasure for me: it is something I rely on to get me through the day.

— Ronan Keating

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

— T.C. Boyle

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

— John Piper

I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

— Alice Walker

Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.

— Simon May

We two make banquets of the plainest fare In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and…

— Alois Podhajsky

A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who…

— Immanuel Kant

For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a…

— Gian Carlo Menotti

The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes…

— John Muir

It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the…

— Ramakrishna

Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Don't live your life to please other people. Because the only person you should please is yourself. If your own self is…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

It wasn't an architect who did this, but if it had been an architect, it would have been a good day's work:…

— Keller Easterling

We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down onto the…

— John Green

This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an…

— James Fenton

Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is…

— Thomas Hobbes

“This worldly life is an ocean of unhappiness. It is just beyond comprehension how people have found happiness in it. Just as…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Well, yes, yes, to be enslaved to you is a pleasure. There is, there is pleasure in the ultimate degree of humiliation…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable…

— Luci Swindoll

Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone,…

— Plotinus

The pleasure of the soul appears to be found in the journey of discovery, the unfolding revelation of expanded insight and experience.

— Anthony Lawlor

Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.

— Muriel Barbery

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

— Alex Cox

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

— Muhammad Ali

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

— Jane Elliot

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

— Virginia Henley

My films are like drinking a good beer, but pleasure doesn't mean that it cannot change someone's point of view.

— Takashi Miike

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

— Henry Giroux

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.

— John Green

The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.

— Gautama Buddha

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

— Mary Balogh

Ranveer is a great co-actor. He is extremely reactive and extremely responsive. He is a pleasure to work with.

— Jim Sarbh

People who achieve a sense of meaning in their lives are happier than those who live from one pleasure to another.

— Richard Layard, Baron Layard

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

— Richard Louv

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.

— Rajneesh