Pleasure Quotes · Page 66

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so…

— Francis Bacon

Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.

— Simon May

The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question,…

— Roxane Gay

It was a pleasure to work with everybody at 'American Idol' and to be able to be part of the 'Idol' family.

— Katie Stevens

To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than…

— John Dewey

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think…

— Lydia Lunch

If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your…

— Dorothy Rowe

My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can…

— Indra Nooyi

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

— Francesco Guicciardini

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able…

— Pat Mora

The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise…

— Maureen Dowd

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

— Beverly Cleary

For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul within itself unblest, Leans…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading…

— Jim Trelease

Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nobody I know is as committed to excellence as Donald Palmisano. He symbolizes everything that is good about our country. If Horatio…

— Paul Galanti

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

— John Ruskin

Sway’s an idiot who didn’t order them when we used up the last bunch. (Vik) Isn’t that your job? (Devyn) No. I’m…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure…

— Julia Child

Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life.

— Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all…

— Michel Onfray

God must act and pour himself into you the moment he finds you ready. Don't imagine that God can be compared to…

— Meister Eckhart

Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.

— Ian Gardner

If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As…

— Dalai Lama

Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure.

— Paulo Coelho

[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.

— Annie French Hector

We have close to us as much as Joseph had at Nazareth; we have our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, but our…

— Peter Julian Eymard

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

— Sophocles

“Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves in such a…

— Awdhesh Singh

It always gives you pleasure when you score runs in Test cricket.

— Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the…

— Al-Ghazali

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we…

— Susan Sontag

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

— Bertrand Russell

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

— Helen Rowland

Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

If I see a beautiful woman walking down the street, a pretty lady, I'll yell, 'Homo!' She can't get pissed, and I…

— Brian Posehn

We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source…

— Arthur Erickson

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

— Dejan Stojanovic