Pleasure Quotes

4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events. — Aldo Leopold
A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes. — Wendell Berry
Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance… — Barry Lopez
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling. — Francois Mauriac
Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of my colon is… — Anthony Bourdain
As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business. — Anthony Bourdain
But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost… — Paul Lester Wiener
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. — Francis Picabia
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain. — John Selden
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. — Samuel Johnson
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing… — Stendhal
...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the… — P.G. Wodehouse
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me… — Jay Roach
As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire… — George Benson
Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can… — Helen Keller
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove… — Elwyn Brooks White
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of… — William Hazlitt
In all pleasures hope is a considerable part. — Samuel Johnson
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by… — Arnold Bennett
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to… — Robert South
On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation… — Unknown Author
Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain. — William Ernest Henley
Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward. — Pema Chodron
Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried to pain, - Hidden away… — Violet Fane
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us… — Umberto Eco

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