Pleasure Quotes · Page 102

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

— Samuel Johnson

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

— Anonymous

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

— John Piper

Ladies, be careful. Don't give a man sex just to keep him around, because it might just do the exact opposite.

— Charlie Butcher

Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.

— Matthew Sharpe

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

— William Ernest Henley

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

— Anonymous

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

— Gertrude Stein

If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights…

— Bertrand Russell

I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics.…

— Tom DeLay

In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey,…

— Alexander Pope

When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by…

— Adam Smith

“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how to play (though yes, I do know how to play the keys), but…

— Lebo Grand

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if…

— Neil Gaiman

There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people…

— Will Rogers

I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so…

— Lorraine Toussaint

The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men…

— George Eliot

Even when a person suffers pain in consequence of a thorn having entered into his hand, although it is at once drawn…

— Maimonides

To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it…

— Anne Bronte

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply…

— John Piper

The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of…

— Timothy Keller

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you…

— Cynthia Ozick

The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel…

— B. C. Forbes

Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose…

— John Ruskin

“RVM's Thought for the Day - "The Gift of life is a Treasure. Some fill it with Pressure...some with Pleasure !”

— RVM

I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

— Epicurus

“One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.

— Annette Bening

There is nothing like laughter, and the sharing of pleasure, to build up a friendship made to be treasured.

— Anonymous

Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

— Rick Warren

I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.

— Graham Norton

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Never forget, that in pain lies gain; if we want early pleasure, we'll miss later treasure. Don't forget. Work hard!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in…

— Sho Baraka

Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.

— William Cowper

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

— Colleen McCullough

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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

— P. D. James

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

— Pope Paul VI

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress…

— Plutarch