Pleasure Quotes · Page 125

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best…

— Seneca the Younger

We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood…

— Lodovico Dolce

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

— Erica Jong

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

— C. S. Lewis

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

— Oliver Goldsmith

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

— Kinky Friedman

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

— Virginia Henley

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

— Henry Giroux

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people…

— Mary Baker Eddy

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know…

— Elmore Leonard

Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment…

— Guy Laliberte

While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as…

— Natalie MacLean

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not…

— Ian Bogost

It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual…

— Anonymous

When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about…

— Valentino Garavani

Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to…

— Lord Chesterfield

What is required is the finding of that Immovable Point within one's self, which is not shaken by any of those tempests…

— Joseph Campbell

If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security…

— Samuel Johnson

I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness,…

— Simon Pegg

I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I…

— John Green

Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the…

— Herbert Spencer

Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic…

— Amy Poehler

We obey people we don't trust, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like, using money we don't…

— Philip Wollen

Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real…

— Richard Farson

My films are like drinking a good beer, but pleasure doesn't mean that it cannot change someone's point of view.

— Takashi Miike

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.

— John Green

The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.

— Gautama Buddha

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

— Mary Balogh

Ranveer is a great co-actor. He is extremely reactive and extremely responsive. He is a pleasure to work with.

— Jim Sarbh

People who achieve a sense of meaning in their lives are happier than those who live from one pleasure to another.

— Richard Layard, Baron Layard

The pleasure of the soul appears to be found in the journey of discovery, the unfolding revelation of expanded insight and experience.

— Anthony Lawlor

Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.

— Muriel Barbery

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

— Muhammad Ali

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

— Alex Cox

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

— Jane Elliot

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

— Anonymous

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

— John Piper

Ladies, be careful. Don't give a man sex just to keep him around, because it might just do the exact opposite.

— Charlie Butcher

Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.

— Matthew Sharpe