Pleasure Quotes · Page 48

“[Italy is] A country where pleasure principle dominates.”

— Sari Gilbert

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

— Aphra Behn

In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.

— Khalil Gibran

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?

— Confucius

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.

— Milan Kundera

Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

— Groucho Marx

Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in…

— George Whitefield

my pleasure was in the strength of my back, in my noble shoulders, the cool smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.

— Denise Levertov

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

— Eckhart Tolle

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

— Roger Caras

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do, and seeing that look on their face when you…

— Anonymous

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Henny Youngman

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that.…

— Sufjan Stevens

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in…

— Samuel Johnson

Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just…

— Frederick Lenz

The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure…

— Swami Vivekananda

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne.…

— William Cowper

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry…

— Laura Riding

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to... spend some time looking out at…

— Robert Crippen

[Drawing should be] a journey of pleasure. Each step must present to the travellers' view objects that are eminently interesting, varied in…

— John James Audubon

It tore us up emotionally hearing someone say to the judge and the cameras that this is a band that creates music…

— Rob Halford

One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people. "Wait - he beats women and seems…

— Jim Goad

If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel…

— Cassandra Clare

“It happened on a Valentine night. Chris was an expert panther, a James Bond. Sarah was a lamb, a Virgin Mary. It…

— Moffat Machingura

Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to…

— Marilynne Robinson

As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus.…

— Mary Pope Osborne

Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of…

— Pascal Bruckner

All that I love loses half its pleasure if u r not there to share it.

— Anonymous

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

— Virgil

“Everything you do must be in pursuit of pleasure.”

— Skye Warren

You have to give people the pleasure of giving you.

— Rob Reiner

Fun and pleasure are just as delicious as achieving a goal.

— Lara Pulver

I can’t function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure.

— Kristen Ashley

“Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted.”

— Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

— Jim Elliot