Pleasure Quotes

4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors

The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I call it the… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is… — Ouida
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but… — Zaha Hadid
Reading will give you lasting pleasure. — Laura Bush
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their… — Aristotle
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with… — George Santayana
The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a… — Jacques Barzun
All the great pleasures of life are silent. — Georges Clemenceau
I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at… — George Orwell
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of… — Bernard de Mandeville
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a… — Oscar Wilde
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England… — William Cowper
Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me? — Nancy Thayer
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. — Oliver Goldsmith
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of… — Walter Scott
Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it… — Andrew Marvell
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends. There's never a… — Steven Wilson
My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural… — Epicurus
God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man,… — Francis Bacon
And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure. — John Milton
What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights. — William Lawson
I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It… — Cristiano Ronaldo

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