Pleasure Quotes · Page 76

“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

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

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

— Graham Norton

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Anonymous

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

— Annette Bening

Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger…

— Khalil Gibran

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total…

— David Hockney

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining…

— Seneca the Younger

Ultimate pleasure is not Found in the short-lived thrills our world offers,but rather in the long-term joy from a deepening intimacy with…

— Mariane Corbito

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important…

— Albert Einstein

If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary…

— John Locke

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of…

— Adam Smith

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if…

— Thomas Merton

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or…

— Saint Francis de Sales

At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed…

— Marcel Proust

The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry…

— Lu Tong

I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule…

— Benjamin

“We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without…

— Bill Watterson

And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less…

— Lysander Spooner

Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are…

— Ruskin Bond

If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in…

— Anthony Burgess

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

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

— Charlie Butcher

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

— John Piper

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

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

— Richard Louv

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Rajneesh

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

— John Green

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

— Henry Giroux

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

— Takashi Miike

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

— Virginia Henley

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

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

— Mary Balogh