Pleasure Quotes · Page 115

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

— Rod Parsley

Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too…

— Christopher Paolini

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

— Francois Fenelon

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.

— Frances Power Cobbe

Receiving money for something that was a pleasure to begin with is a little outrageous.

— Rainer Weiss

Before these haters kill me in my sleep, I'd like to say its been a pleasure.

— Drake

Hire women. Trust women. Let them succeed. They are a pleasure to work with.

— Catherine Reitman

For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When…

— William Julius Mickle

I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found…

— John Lydon

Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind.…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at…

— Mireille Guiliano

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom…

— Bernard de Mandeville

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme…

— Taylor Schilling

“...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both nothing better than vanity; the…

— Henry Fielding

I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give…

— Jenna Elfman

I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet,…

— Fanny Burney

There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring.…

— Anonymous

I think living is serious. Living well, accepting yourself, using your talents to the fullest, enjoying yourself, that's all serious and important...But…

— Diane von Furstenberg

Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred.…

— Charles Dickens

Most of us miss out on life's big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. Tonys. Emmys,Bharatratna. But we're all eligible for life's…

— Anonymous

Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when…

— C.P. Cavafy

I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books…

— Pearl S. Buck

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced…

— A. E. Housman

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

— Charles Baudelaire

Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.

— Martin Seligman

I only take pleasure in making a break if I've made the correct decision.

— Owen Farrell

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.

— Justin Martyr

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

— Agnes Repplier

I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips

— Clement Freud

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at…

— Tryon Edwards

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

— Ann Radcliffe

“Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.”

— Samuel Johnson

“You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures.”

— Mireille Guiliano

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

— Billy Graham

The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength and wellbeing.

— Christiane Northrup

One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people.

— Jim Goad

If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over…

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon