Pleasure Quotes · Page 112

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

— Mark Twain

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

— Jeri Ryan

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

— Oscar Wilde

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

— Henry David Thoreau

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a…

— Abraham Lincoln

Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.

— Oprah Winfrey

For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives.

— Woody Allen

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

— Jean de la Bruyere

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people…

— Cornel West

The really important questions in human life are hardly touched upon by psychologists. Do liars come to believe their own lies? Is…

— Anthony Standen

Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an…

— George Washington

It was crazy: marriage. You gave your whole life, your whole happiness, over to one other human being, even the best of…

— Anne Taylor Fleming

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small…

— Amos Oz

Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage…

— Blaise Pascal

I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know…

— Lydia Lunch

A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to…

— Frances Clarke Sayers

Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except…

— Rajneesh

Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure)…

— Roland Barthes

I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the…

— Bill Watterson

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of…

— Hugh Black

Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness,…

— Clive Barker

I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have…

— Georges Bizet

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

— John Keats

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

— Benjamin Zander

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”

— Truman Capote

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

— Alain Prost

It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make…

— Dorothy Wordsworth

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

— Meredith Willson

“Exploration of her body will open the doors to pleasuring her in ways she has yet to experience.”

— Stephan Labossiere

I was a Fry & Laurie fan, I was a Blackadder fan, I was a House fan and he [ Hugh Laurie]s…

— David Mandel

The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of…

— Ivan Panin

The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.

— Giacomo Casanova

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

— Ian Mcewan

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

— Jane Austen

There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living.

— Washington Irving

I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.

— Louise Hay

There is so much a man can tell you,So much he can say.You remain, my power, my pleasure, my pain

— Seal

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton