Pleasure Quotes
4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors
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In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and…
— Bartholomew Roberts
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In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.
— Martin Luther
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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing…
— Denis Waitley
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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
— Euripides
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
— Edmund Burke
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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
— Oscar Wilde
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Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.
— Arthur Darvill
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Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague…
— Bernard Bolzano
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The pleasure was all yours.
— Jesse Ventura
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Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
— William Wordsworth
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Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!
— Billy Graham
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Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
— Oprah Winfrey
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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
— Oscar Wilde
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Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy of criticism. The…
— Ibn Hazm
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O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from…
— Al-Ghazali
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Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.
— Madeleine de Scudery
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Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.
— Unknown Author
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Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the…
— Hal Porter
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Living Things. The garden can be as unlimited a resource as you want it to be. It's an escape from everything if you just want…
— Hazel Hawke
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The flowers, the gorgeous, mystic multi-coloured flowers are not the flowers of life, but people, yes people are the true flowers of life, and it…
— Lord Buckley
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Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about…
— Aidan Chambers
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Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments…
— Greil Marcus
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Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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