Pleasure Quotes

4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Few people want the pleasures they are free to take. — Unknown Author
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next year's revenue. — Jonathan Swift
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. — Charles Caleb Colton
I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then… — George Carlin
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. — Lord Byron
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel. — Akkineni Nagarjuna
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. — William Hazlitt
No profit grows where no pleasure is taken. — William Shakespeare
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself… — Gordon B. Hinckley
And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what… — Khalil Gibran
I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk… — Heinrich Heine
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is… — Dalai Lama
I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any… — John Philip Sousa
To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on the… — Newton D. Baker
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. — Aphra Behn
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. — Samuel Johnson
They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them. — Desiderius Erasmus
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished… — James Stewart
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its pleasure in our… — Prentice Mulford
Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than… — Eckhart Tolle
If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or two. One of… — Roger von Oech
For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort. — Compton Mackenzie
God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger. — Victor Hugo

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