Pleasure Quotes · Page 107

I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?

— Karen Hawkins

'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different.

— Meg Wolitzer

It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

— Martial

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

— John Milton

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

— Ben Jonson

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

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it…

— Marlene Dumas

But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your…

— Nigella Lawson

The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God's gift of himself for our everlasting…

— John Piper

There's something nice about being able to go to sleep at night saying "You know, tomorrow I'm gonna get up and I'm…

— Assata Shakur

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him…

— Abraham Lincoln

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and…

— John Piper

Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart…

— Bertrand Russell

So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of…

— John Prescott

We are not made up only of our light and happiness but also of darkness and sorrow. To deny the darkness of…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in…

— Aristotle

There is a sensuousness to language, there's a pace to it. There's a deliciousness to it. I do have pleasure when I'm…

— Jonathan Santlofer

Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes…

— William Hazlitt

Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory,…

— Alexander von Humboldt

Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress…

— Rabindranath Tagore

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We…

— Andrew Solomon

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

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

— Plutarch

“Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true pleasure is that for which they give up another.”

— Marcel Proust

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

— Sivananda

You are what you decide you want to be. You can be some horrible, bitter person who's not a pleasure to be…

— Paul Young

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

— Tracy Letts

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

— Ira Glass

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

— Alfie Kohn

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

— Thomas Aquinas

We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and…

— Rod Parsley

Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.

— Russell Baker

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

— Samuel Johnson

Playing for City has surpassed all my expectations and it's an absolute pleasure to be part of such an incredible squad.

— Ruben Dias

I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.

— Sophia Tolstaya