Pleasure Quotes · Page 116

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

— Henri Rousseau

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

— Toni Morrison

“There is no happiness that lasts overlong. There are only moments of intense pleasure that make all that comes between bearable.”

— Nina Bangs

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.

— William Shakespeare

It's always a pleasure to be wanted by a club such as Paris St. Germain, especially as I am Parisian.

— Patrice Evra

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

— Aaron Burr

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

— Eric Jerome Dickey

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial, so I'd be hard pressed to feel embarrassed by anything I listen to.…

— Ani DiFranco

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces.…

— John Green

There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

As someone who spends a lot of her time on the road, you have to look stylish but comfortable as I'm always…

— Maria Sharapova

Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate. Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion,…

— Cynthia Heimel

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard…

— Todd Solondz

Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose…

— Owen Feltham

“As I've said before," she scoffed, "you're different." "How am I different?" his exasperation was clear. "Well, it seems you are my…

— Sarah MacLean

Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a…

— George Will

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure…

— Karen Thompson Walker

With all the strength of my soul I urge you young people to approach the Communion table as often as you can.…

— Pier Giorgio Frassati

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least…

— Seneca the Younger

Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of…

— Andrea Dworkin

All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been…

— Amy Carmichael

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

— John Piper

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is always a pleasure to work with a Malayali crew, regardless of the language of the movie.

— Atul Kulkarni

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

— Fred Melamed

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

— Eckhart Tolle

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

— Hermann Hesse

The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always…

— Aristippus

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

— John Adams

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

— Richard Steele

Deadlines comes as a surprise…superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

— Alberto Manguel

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

— Josef Skvorecky

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

— John Steinbeck