Pleasure Quotes · Page 83

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

— Juvenal

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

— Dodie Smith

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

— Robert Southwell

If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.

— Brother Lawrence

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

— Dan Simmons

“It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.”

— Charlotte Brontë

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by…

— Tertullian

“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.”

— Hermann Hesse

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's…

— Saint Patrick

Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a…

— William Davenant

A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the…

— Oscar Wilde

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of…

— Arne Glimcher

We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its…

— Thomas Jefferson

Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write…

— Anne Rice

Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose…

— Chogyam Trungpa

There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others…

— Edith Schaeffer

I also stole a small yellow doughnut from the box of Duncan's doughnuts in the rec room and fed it to the…

— Ilona Andrews

Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them…

— Remy de Gourmont

I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want…

— Ayn Rand

For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only,…

— Lord Byron

The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a…

— Thomas Moore

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

— Pat Conroy

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

— Anonymous

It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world…

— Owen Wister

For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.

— Mikhail Tal

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

— Ben Jonson

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

— John Milton

“When a woman is romantically subdued, all she does at that moment is under the influence of her desires.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

— David Lynch

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

— Donald Trump

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

— Hilaire Belloc

Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.

— Doreen Valiente

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

— William Shakespeare