Pleasure Quotes · Page 82

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

— Emily Eden

The ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number.

— Alister MacKenzie

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

— Livy

“Do I have the right to experience pleasure and peace? If so, what would bring me pleasure and peace?”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

— Jeremy Bentham

Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple.

— Deepak Chopra

Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?

— John Sullivan Dwight

Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life,…

— Robert Henri

There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you…

— Michael Ondaatje

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and…

— Seneca the Younger

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that…

— Nolan Ryan

To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into…

— Zeena Schreck

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The idea makes a lot of people uncomfortable. [...] It's hurt a great many people and been responsible for a great deal…

— Manna Francis

Like I tell people they wind up having short term pleasure and long term pain. I'm a tell what Minister Louis Farrakhan…

— Mr. T

“Is there such a thing as too much pleasure? When Simon imagines the bathhouses, he thinks of a carnival of gluttony, an…

— Chloe Benjamin

As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of…

— Henry Fielding

If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though…

— Rosellen Brown

If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own…

— Marquis de Sade

God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a…

— Martin Luther

Most of the actors that I've had the pleasure to work with are very easy to get along with. And whether they're…

— Mark Gordon

You, methinks you think you love me well; For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love Should have some rest and…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse…

— Robert Musil

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

— Anthony Trollope

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

— Lord Chesterfield

No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except…

— Ibn Taymiyyah

Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.

— Christina, Queen of Sweden

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There's no pleasure in having nothing to do. The pleasure is in having lots to do and not doing it.”

— Mary Wilson Little

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

— Alan Watts

The pleasure of life is to work hard towards your goals, but a little bit smart and achieving them.

— Ziph Alzu

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it…

— Jose Saramago

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure.”

— Cherise Sinclair

It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.

— Johannes Brahms

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum…

— Joseph Pilates

Of troubles know I none, Of pleasures know I many - I rove beneath the sun, Without a single penny.

— Eleanor Farjeon

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

— Cornel West

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

— Albert Einstein