Pleasure Quotes · Page 88

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

— Salvador Dali

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

— Blaise Pascal

I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

— George Herbert

I'm always working. Like a lot of creative people I can't switch off. I can't disassociate work from pleasure. My job is…

— Marc Newson

Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.

— Robertson Davies

Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.

— Rick Astley

There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.

— Gary D. Schmidt

I genuinely love Oasis, and I also genuinely love Beyonce. My body gets the same pleasure. If you like different types of…

— Chris Martin

If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my…

— Billy Joel

I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have…

— Marquis de Sade

Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they…

— Eugene Ionesco

The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to…

— Neil Gaiman

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid…

— John Lubbock

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure.…

— Arabella Weir

The greatest pleasure in life is doing the things people say you couldn't do or had doubts about you doing, never give…

— Chris Kings

A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting…

— Charles Eley

Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds…

— Stephen Russell

Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity…

— Ellen Willis

I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and…

— Anonymous

I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent…

— Pete La Roca

“The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of “fun,” constantly cries for more and more. So the next new…

— Stephen R. Covey

And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe.…

— Anonymous

I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against…

— Susan Sontag

Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.

— Tayari Jones

We are PSG, we are the champion, We must take pleasure and give joy to people.

— Marquinhos

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

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

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

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Michael Owen

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

— John Ruskin

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

— Gaspar Noe

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

— John Mortimer

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

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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

— Giotto di Bondone

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