Pleasure Quotes · Page 30

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

— Raymond Hitchcock

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

— Robert Browning

When you like something, it's not work, it's a pleasure.

— Royce Gracie

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

— Jose Gonzalez

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

— Dave Ramsey

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

— Blaise Pascal

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

— Germaine Greer

Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

— Baruch Spinoza

“We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out…

— Bryant McGill

when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater…

— Galen Beckett

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming…

— Mick Taylor

You're faking, you're mistaken If you think that you could climb out of this hole

— Anonymous

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

— Conor Oberst

It was an extreme pleasure to be a part of the MCU, and if and when the call comes for me to…

— Simu Liu

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot.…

— Eva Green

Any child who reads widely, often and for pleasure will inevitably make comparisons between what they're reading, why they're reading and how…

— Michael Rosen

“I’m yours.” He knows something about the surrender of ownership, the delegation of will, turns me on, and the pressure of pleasure…

— Anonymous

There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind…

— Zac Efron

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of…

— Mortimer Adler

As a writer and as a human being, Susan Dworkin has always had the ability to draw us into new dreams of…

— Gloria Steinem

“I love every inch of you," I tell her. "Every part of your body that makes you nervous gives me pleasure. I…

— J.M. Darhower

I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have…

— Barry Sanders

If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I'm also lonely. I'll admit it. I go to Twitter because I'm lonely. I get my coffee in the morning, and I…

— Andie MacDowell

One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was…

— Charles Frazier

First of all, I had the desire for that format [silent movie], and then when I was talking to people, I felt…

— Michel Hazanavicius

To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of…

— Rachel Carson

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups…

— David McCullough

One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to…

— Katherine Anne Porter

I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that…

— Dawna Markova

There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

— Anna Godbersen

Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

— R. C. Sproul

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part

— Samuel Johnson

Big voice, big heart - Mary Ellen Wessels is a pleasure to hear.

— Fred Small

“Mixture of pleasure and pain,” he muttered. “Always does the trick.”

— Douglas Adams

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

— Democritus

Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.

— Swami Vivekananda

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

— George Farquhar