Pleasure Quotes · Page 86

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

— Arthur Helps

By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it…

— Alphonsus Liguori

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.

— Thrity Umrigar

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.

— John Hickenlooper

People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.

— Milan Kundera

Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.

— Tom Hodgkinson

I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.

— Joseph Scheidler

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

— Adrienne Monnier

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is…

— Mark Kurlansky

As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only…

— Alan King

Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of…

— Jon Scieszka

Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every…

— Israel Shenker

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived…

— Richard L. Evans

It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our…

— Ursula Goodenough

Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've…

— David Liss

Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole… The characteristics and pursuits of…

— Henry David Thoreau

According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity,…

— Jimmy Carter

“What does 'community service' mean? It destroys 'my' (sense of attachment for specific things, especially oneself) for the most part. If 'my'…

— Dada Bhagwan

Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he…

— Gautama Buddha

Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out…

— Jeremy Bentham

Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure…

— John Dufresne

Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united…

— Thucydides

Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.

— John Wooden

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

— Jonathan Franzen

“To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment.”

— Saul Bellow

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

— Leo Howard

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world."…

— Anonymous

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

— Ellen G. White

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring…

— William Gilmore Simms

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

— William Shatner

What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something…

— Blaise Pascal

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant…

— Elizabeth Kostova

The memory of us as one, I'm going to live well somehow. If it's because I loved you too much..3rd April 1986.…

— Anonymous

Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and…

— Kenneth Clark

Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.

— Saadi

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

— Marcia Gay Harden

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

— Democritus