Pleasure Quotes · Page 10

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

— Cullen Hightower

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

— Anonymous

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

— Francis Quarles

Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears.

— Isaac Watts

“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked…

— Virginia Woolf

I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of…

— Denise Duhamel

Hip Hop Sisters is going strong. Our signature initiative is #EducateOurMen, whereby we have the pleasure, the enjoyment, as well as having…

— MC Lyte

The pleasure of life is to work hard towards your goals, but a little bit smart and achieving them.

— Ziph Alzu

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Robertson Davies

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

— Albert Einstein

Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in…

— Robert Greene

The great source of pleasure is variety.

— Samuel Johnson

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

— Henny Youngman

Lust is as it were desire and desire, will which extends beyond the natural will, passionate, not governed by the law and…

— Patriarch Philaret of Moscow

Love is beauty, consciousness is trust. One of the deepest feminine pleasures is when a man stands full, present, and unreactive in…

— David Deida

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps…

— Adam Gopnik

When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.

— John Piper

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

— Oscar Wilde

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

— Georges Bataille

"Thanks be to God," says the Admiral, "the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to…

— Christopher Columbus

Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an…

— Janet Malcolm

I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers.…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It…

— Eric Hoffer

Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing…

— Anonymous