Beast Quote by Ben Jonson

The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.

— Anonymous

It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it.

— Will Self

“He can go about his business, so completely satisfied to see and be part of the divine Order of Things that he will never…

— Aldous Huxley

“Holiness requires continual effort on our part and continual nourishing and strengthening by the Spirit.”

— Jerry Bridges

Ultimate pleasure is not Found in the short-lived thrills our world offers,but rather in the long-term joy from a deepening intimacy with our God..

— Mariane Corbito

“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,…

— Sigmund Freud

“Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense,…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed…

— Edwin Louis Cole

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

— Marquis de Sade

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.

— Phillip Adams

“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as…

— Epicurus