Pleasure Quotes · Page 108

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

— Jonathan Edwards

“when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having…

— Jane Austen

Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.

— A. E. Hotchner

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

— Samuel Johnson

I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

— Lord Chesterfield

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

— Clarence Darrow

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

— Carlo Petrini

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.

— Mary Schmich

“I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last…

— Roberto Bolaño

“How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain…

— Washington Irving

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for…

— Jonathan Ames

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may…

— Edward Thorndike

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the…

— William Shenstone

Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw…

— John Donne

Inevitably I came to associate any wine I met with a specific place and a particular slant of history. I learned to…

— Gerald Asher

Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so…

— Rumi

It appears that your intellect has not yet grasped the contexts at hand or even anticipate the conclusion of the subject/ you…

— Londa Ntombela

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried to pain,…

— Violet Fane

The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious.…

— Anonymous

There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be…

— Owen Feltham

God isn't calling us to a lonely, joyless existence with the promise of a delayed reward. God is calling us to live,…

— John Powell

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the…

— Horace Walpole

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

— Irving Penn

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

— Ellis Peters

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as…

— Desiderius Erasmus

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

— Charles Dickens

Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.

— Arthur Darvill

All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.

— Swami Vivekananda

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

— Quintilian

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be…

— Abraham Lincoln

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

— Lord Byron

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

— Lord Chesterfield

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

— Alister E. McGrath

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

— James Norwood Pratt

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

— Plato