Pleasure Quotes · Page 65

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

— Francis Bacon

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

— Anita Loos

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

— Mary Jo Putney

I find a very guilty pleasure in dark themes and vibes, and finding where the transcending nature of awareness meets this darkness.

— Mike Scheidt

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

— Simon Barnes

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Siegbert Tarrasch

It's another pleasure to score at Old Trafford, so I will try to do me best to do that.

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Sexual pleasure is not a sin. Nor is it a sacrament. It is your right as a human being to exercise as…

— Phyllis Chesler

Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as…

— Richard Sibbes

If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while,…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind,…

— Maria Edgeworth

I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I…

— Rachilde

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything…

— Oscar Wilde

In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and…

— Jeanne Moreau

You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out…

— Emily Dickinson

Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the…

— Thomas Paine

“Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been without thought? Without...integrity? How could…

— Mary Balogh

a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the…

— Vita Sackville-West

God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the…

— Francis Bacon

I do my job. I love my job. It's the best job I ever had. And it's probably the best job I…

— Preet Bharara

He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical…

— Gay Talese

What is precious is never to forget, The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs, Breaking through rocks in worlds before…

— Stephen Spender

I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue…

— Sarah Fielding

I like to make other people feel good, and if receiving my autograph brings them a little bit of pleasure, then I'm…

— Fabio Lanzoni

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

— Giotto di Bondone

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

— John Mortimer

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of…

— Oscar Wilde

Get Lost! It doesn't sound insulting only on week-end! If you really get lost and go exploring.

— Biman Gandhi

Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal…

— Christopher John Farley

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

— David Foster Wallace

Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.

— John Dryden

Part of the pleasure of any kind of walking for me is the very idea of going somewhere-by foot.

— Ruth Rudner

If you take pleasure in what you're doing, certainly the audience might, too.

— Gaspar Noe

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy…

— John Ruskin

Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable…

— Michael Owen

For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

— Oprah Winfrey

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

— Dave Ramsey

Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet.

— George Carlin