Pleasure Quotes

4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors

I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away — Joanna Lumley
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to… — Claude Debussy
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off. — Alex Trebek
Once we agree with God that we exist for His pleasure and His glory, we can accept whatever comes into our lives as a part… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope.… — Dorothy Rowe
Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not… — Thomas Merton
By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes… — Norman Lear
The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with… — Charles Spurgeon
Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and… — Joseph Hall
Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied. — Richard Baxter
Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as having represented to… — Richard Sibbes
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively… — Joseph Paxton
As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name. — Sarada Devi
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love your work, then you will find pleasure in mastering it. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. — Beverly Cleary
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain. — Samuel Johnson
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. — William Wycherley
Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when you have both pleasure and… — Rajneesh
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. — John F. Kennedy
We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our… — Samuel Johnson
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to… — William Makepeace Thackeray

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