Pleasure Quotes · Page 51

For me, it's a pleasure to play football every three or four days.

— Thiago Alcantara

“Embrace the pleasure. Reach for it.”

— Maya Banks

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

— John Green

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

— Neil Gaiman

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

— Tom Hodgkinson

To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

— Voltaire

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

— Alan Jay Lerner

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

— Raymond Radiguet

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

— Elena Ferrante

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

— Mason Cooley

“there were indeed some shades of pleasure that could be colored only by another hand”

— Sylvia Day

To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.

— Eiji Yoshikawa

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

— Robert Burns

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

— Aristotle

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of…

— John Milton

“Love is the only thing that changes abstinence from a prison into pleasure.”

— Jihad Eltabey

He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language…

— Mary Balogh

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers…

— Samuel Johnson

Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties…

— David Berg

“The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men, for we are,…

— Bryant McGill

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in…

— Anonymous

Art devoid of danger lacks many other things as well: pleasure, beauty, and the ability to save us. Poems that divest the…

— James Allen Hall

I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from…

— Naturi Naughton

Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature…

— Anna Wintour

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my…

— Samuel Pepys

I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so…

— Geoffrey Wood

This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are…

— St. Catherine of Siena

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the…

— Fulton J. Sheen

If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow,…

— Antoine Wilson

And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is…

— Anonymous

In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing…

— Andrea Bocelli

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

— Ovid

Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

— Horace

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.

— Maisie Williams

It was a big pleasure to play a Grand Slam match on my birthday.

— Dominic Thiem

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

— Epicurus

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

— Benjamin Franklin