Pleasure Quotes

4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. — Juvenal
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the… — Cyril Connolly
Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure. — John Ruskin
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. — Jane Austen
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the… — Nick Hornby
Drinking is the soldier's pleasure. — John Dryden
In Heaven, to look into God's eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for His own… — Randy Alcorn
Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the… — John Dryden
The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires..... — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It… — Henry Van Dyke
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and… — Enid Bagnold
Emotions in this game run deep so before these haters kill me in my sleep I'd like to say, it's been a pleasure. — Drake
Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim,… — Satish Kumar
I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave. — Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne
Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt… — Roland Barthes
These flowers are like the pleasures of the world. — William Shakespeare
Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more… — Ernest Hemingway
Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the… — Jane Austen
Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel… — Colman McCarthy
To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid. — Robert Breault
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. — Thomas Jefferson
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we… — Charles Caleb Colton
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. — Seneca the Younger

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