Pleasure Quotes · Page 73

Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

— Michael Pollan

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

— Seneca the Younger

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

— Alex Trebek

“When you have a wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.”

— Criss Jami

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

— Agnes Repplier

Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.

— Anushka Sharma

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

— Anonymous

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

— Jane Austen

I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I…

— Henry Martyn

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he…

— Jack Cade

God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act…

— Arthur W. Pink

I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found…

— John Lydon

Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind.…

— Charles Caleb Colton

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said…

— David Sedaris

“...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both nothing better than vanity; the…

— Henry Fielding

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom…

— Bernard de Mandeville

It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far…

— Anonymous

Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never…

— Theodore Dalrymple

I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if…

— George Eliot

Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well…

— Hippocrates

Suppose someone should offer me a plateful of crumbs after I had eaten a T-bone steak. I would say, "No, thank you.…

— Billy Graham

Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith,…

— Martin Seligman

The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that…

— John Ruskin

The mind is something I cultivate and treasure.. thanks beside it was my pleasure..

— Tupac Shakur

It's always a pleasure when you get to work with people that you actually really like.

— Mekhi Phifer

I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

— Charles Bukowski

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

— Busy Philipps

I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure…

— Stewart O'Nan

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

— Elisabeth Elliot

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

— Jacques Barzun

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

— Livy

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there

— Leslie Feinberg

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright.

— Christiane Northrup

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

— John Vanbrugh

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius”

— Confucius

Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

— William Butler Yeats

It has been said that the only reason for leaving England is to give yourself the pleasure of coming back to it.

— Patience Strong

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in…

— Francis Quarles