Best Pleasure Qoutes
4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors
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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend…
— John Selden
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
— William Hazlitt
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The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself…
— Susan Sontag
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Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those…
— Martin Seligman
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In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is…
— Laura Schlessinger
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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.
— Hugh Black
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I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked…
— Robert Browning
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle.…
— Carl Sagan
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains?…
— Agnes Repplier
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He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows,…
— Hippocrates
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of…
— Ugo Betti
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High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own…
— Samuel Johnson
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We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.
— Marilyn Monroe
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Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
— Aristotle
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Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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