Pleasure Quotes · Page 112

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy…

— John Ruskin

We are PSG, we are the champion, We must take pleasure and give joy to people.

— Marquinhos

Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet.

— George Carlin

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

— Dave Ramsey

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

— Simon Barnes

It's another pleasure to score at Old Trafford, so I will try to do me best to do that.

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the best group of people in…

— Red Adair

I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most…

— Jean Plaidy

Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself. Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don't make yourself…

— Susan Jeffers

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the…

— William Shenstone

Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for…

— Jonathan Ames

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may…

— Edward Thorndike

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

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

— Michel Onfray

Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so…

— Rumi

Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What…

— Ray Davies

Inevitably I came to associate any wine I met with a specific place and a particular slant of history. I learned to…

— Gerald Asher

God isn't calling us to a lonely, joyless existence with the promise of a delayed reward. God is calling us to live,…

— John Powell

There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be…

— Owen Feltham

Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried to pain,…

— Violet Fane

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

— John Mortimer

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

— Giotto di Bondone

I like to make other people feel good, and if receiving my autograph brings them a little bit of pleasure, then I'm…

— Fabio Lanzoni

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of…

— Oscar Wilde

Get Lost! It doesn't sound insulting only on week-end! If you really get lost and go exploring.

— Biman Gandhi

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

— John Howard Payne

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

— David Hume

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

— Marcel Proust

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

— Andre Gide

Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure…

— Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer.

— Juergen Teller

“There's nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower," he said to himself. "They certainly do cheer you up.”

— Charmian Hussey

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

— Anonymous

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky