Pleasure Quotes · Page 50

Any time I get to play Dick Casablancas is always a pleasure.

— Ryan Hansen

Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.

— Madeleine de Scudery

“It’s always a pleasure forcing you to do things you don’t want to do.”

— Anonymous

I look back on my career with pleasure.

— Filippo Inzaghi

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

— Neil Young

“...talk is an art and a pleasure, not a matter of mere use and need.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

— Jude Morgan

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I go back to L.A. as often as I can, and even if I'm there on business, I always add on a…

— Ben Miller

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

— Hilaire Belloc

“To become a better you, be willing to make the needed sacrifice. Don’t spend your money on luxuries.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

— Anonymous

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

— Aristotle

I adore gelato; it's a pleasure I shared for years with my friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

— Monica Vitti

“Thus pleasure itself, also becoming a right, lost its aggressive futility.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure…

— Colleen McCullough

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine…

— Immanuel Kant

Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There…

— Anonymous

Love is too mighty for humans to handle. It may make you feel invincible, but it will show you your own mortality.…

— Anonymous

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many…

— Maya Angelou

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and…

— Noah Levine

“A woman’s body was a work of art. One to be explored and appreciated. Every curve, every valley, every freckle a treasure…

— Olivia Cunning

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of…

— Bertrand Russell

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et…

— Horace

Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme…

— Wallace Stegner

Anytime that we - and when I say "we," I mean feminine people, trans feminine folk, women - do anything that is…

— Janet Mock

“Books give us pleasure not because they make us comfortable, though some good ones may, but because they entertain us, they make…

— William McPherson

The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long…

— Winston Churchill

The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened…

— Dante Alighieri

I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh"…

— David Levithan

Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates…

— James Howard Kunstler

Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of…

— Washington Allston

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

— Cat Stevens

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

— Don Herold

It was a pleasure collaborating with B Praak and Altamash.

— Tanishk Bagchi

The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

— Ben Hogan

There's no way to explain, but all the pleasure is worth all the pain.

— LeAnn Rimes

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

— Dale Carnegie

Sometimes you have to give up present pleasure for future gain.

— Melchor Lim

No profit grows where there is no pleasure taken

— William Shakespeare