Pleasure Quotes · Page 89

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

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

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

— Simon Barnes

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

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

— Francis Bacon

I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end…

— Danny McBride

Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read…

— Thomas Gray

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above…

— Ann Radcliffe

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures,…

— Richard Sharp

What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the…

— John Dryden

The idols of today are unmistakable - self-esteem without achievement, sex without consequences, wealth without responsibility, pleasure without struggle and experience without…

— Jonathan Sacks

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world…

— Anonymous

God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon…

— Sam Storms

“My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that somebody actually knew…

— David Sedaris

One of my constant reminders was, "End practice on a happy note." I wanted the boys to want to come out to…

— John Wooden

I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a…

— Fay Weldon

There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no…

— Oscar Wilde

I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a…

— Ian Fleming

The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then…

— Lord Chesterfield

Your Heavenly body is going to be an awful lot like it is now, only better. And if you enjoy its pleasures…

— David Berg

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

— Ellsworth Kelly

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

— Agnes Repplier

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

— Howard Gardner

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

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

Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.

— Vita Sackville-West

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

— Alvin Ailey

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil…

— John Ruskin

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and…

— Aldous Huxley

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

— Mortimer Adler

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

— Mark Twain

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

— A. S. Byatt

I cut the cord for my son, which was a tremendous pleasure, though Ive never eaten calamari since.

— Hugh Dennis