Pleasure Quotes

4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable — Evelyn Waugh
I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking… — Ian Fleming
Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure. — John Ashbery
Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come… — Epicurus
The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there… — Epicurus
It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still… — Epicurus
Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it… — Robert E. Lee
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise… — Sinclair Lewis
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I… — J D Salinger
Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it, I would be… — Stephen R. Donaldson
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted. — Aristippus
The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you… — Akira Kurosawa
The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and… — Fernando Pessoa
We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are… — Blaise Pascal
. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life -… — Ellen Glasgow
It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it. — Charles E. McKenzie
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and… — Joseph Joubert
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the… — Julia Child
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties. — Samuel Johnson
I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace to… — Henry Martyn
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say,… — Jeremy Bentham
The limits of pleasures are as yet neither known nor fixed, and we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. — Pierre Charron
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that… — Epictetus
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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