Pleasure Quotes · Page 116

Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes.

— Louis Finkelstein

It has been said that the only reason for leaving England is to give yourself the pleasure of coming back to it.

— Patience Strong

Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

— William Butler Yeats

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius”

— Confucius

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in…

— Francis Quarles

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it

— Darren Criss

Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the…

— Clive Barker

Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure?

— Frank Zappa

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or…

— Alex Campbell

“What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening to him…

— Sara Baume

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the…

— Emile Durkheim

Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create…

— Ruth Harris

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit…

— Jacques Barzun

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of…

— George Orwell

Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I…

— Hugh Hefner

Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and…

— Grace Paley

If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it…

— Lord Chesterfield

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave…

— Cornel West

In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross…

— Anonymous

I don't think we should just 'muddle through' and ignore the question of life's meaning. Or better, perhaps, I don't think it…

— David E. Cooper

Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high…

— Jane Austen

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

— C. S. Lewis

When I see smiles while we are performing, whether live, on stage or in films or on TV, it gives me immense…

— Sunil Grover

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.

— Samuel Johnson

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

— Ramana Maharshi

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

— John Hodgman

“RAGING MIND - A HAIKU Uncontrollable, Thoughts flow, attention decides, If there's peace, or pain!”

— Amogh Swamy

Pain stems from pleasure. they balance carefully, and when one is absent the other morphs into hate and depression

— Myself

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

— Alex Trebek

“When you have a wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.”

— Criss Jami

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

— Agnes Repplier

Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.

— Anushka Sharma

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

— Anonymous

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

— Jane Austen

It's always a pleasure when you get to work with people that you actually really like.

— Mekhi Phifer

The mind is something I cultivate and treasure.. thanks beside it was my pleasure..

— Tupac Shakur