Pleasure Quotes

4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors

With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase. — Abraham Lincoln
There's always a little bit of heaven, even in a disaster area. — Wavy Gravy
The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to go for the gusto, ask yourself this important… — Matt Groening
I've had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It's more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little… — Elvis Presley
You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people,… — Cesare Pavese
Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire. — Paulo Coelho
Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life — Giovanni Papini
I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it… — Elizabeth Gilbert
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs. — Roger Caras
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and… — Walter Scott
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties.… — Mary Baker Eddy
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I… — Lord Byron
Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the… — Mary Caroline Richards
We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for… — Jean Baudrillard
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about… — John Keats
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the… — Charles Baudelaire
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes — Luigi Pirandello
How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies… — James Cash Penney
Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to… — Thomas Jefferson
Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld… — Robert Burns
If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be,… — James Madison
People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then they cannot be… — Michel Foucault
By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the… — Charles Horton Cooley
There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for. — Charles Baudelaire

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