Pleasure Quotes · Page 79

Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.

— Peggy Guggenheim

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

— Robinson Jeffers

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

— Joni Mitchell

Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.

— Rick Warren

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

— Herbert Spencer

A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.

— Samuel Rogers

If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.

— Christopher Lambert

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

— Max Eastman

My golden retriever, Callie, is so easy to please. She finds great pleasure in our day-to-day routine, which helps me to enjoy…

— Kristin Davis

Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to…

— Criss Jami

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to…

— Manfred von Richthofen

Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we…

— Thomas Watson

God’s will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless…

— Myles Munroe

Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride…

— Brock Yates

Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one…This is the cause…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither…

— Anonymous

Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a…

— Lance Armstrong

I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food,…

— Heinrich Heine

“The transience of human feeling is nothing short of ludicrous. My mercurial fluctuations in the course of a single evening made me…

— Siri Hustvedt

There is nothing in the world like the rush of going down a mountain and harnessing all that energy and all that…

— Steve Bellamy

Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual…

— Anonymous

“Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no…

— Mark Slouka

Nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed. Here is a foundation of faith.…

— Anonymous

Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.

— Zicheng Hong

I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.

— Felix Dennis

A few moments of pleasure cannot be worth the death sentence imposed by its consequence.

— Terry Mark

Love is when we plan days that bring us pleasure and building memories two can treasure.

— Anonymous

Sometimes to gain something that is worth having, it becomes necessary to lose everything else.

— Anonymous

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The demise of Jeb Bush has been a source of immeasurable pleasure for, well, nearly everyone.

— Franklin Foer

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

— Narendra Modi

There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good.

— Alone Boy

I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only…

— Garth Greenwell

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

— Seneca the Younger

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest…

— Olive Schreiner

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.

— Thomas Jefferson

“For convenience sake, we deny the truth and look past it. Instant pleasure transforms quietly into immense pain.”

— Amitav Chowdhury

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

— Nicole Brossard