Pleasure Quotes

4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors

There is pleasure in the pathless woods. — Lord Byron
You don't need candlelight and fireside glow to make Christmas happen. Trees, ornaments, gifts, and all of it are splendid embellishments. Not necessary, but so… — Jack W. Hayford
A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion. — Theodore Roethke
Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative… — Roland Barthes
Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. — Elizabeth Robins Pennell
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child… — Abraham Lincoln
Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you. — Thomas Jefferson
Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real condition of children… — Richard Farson
Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that… — Lord Chesterfield
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day.… — William Styron
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons. — William Targ
It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you… — Lewis Thomas
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures… — Charles Baxter
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. Men came to earth consciously to… — Spencer W. Kimball
Love is not always doing what brings pleasure; love is also doing what is good for someone, whatever the cost at the moment. sometimes, it's… — Linda Goodman
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life. — Charles Lamb
Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity. — Siegbert Tarrasch
Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create… — David Hurn
And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or… — Sam Abell
We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at best. Second and… — Unknown Author
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. — Joseph Addison
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling… — John Mason Brown
Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art… — Susan Sontag
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose! — Boris Spassky

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