Pleasure Quotes

Pleasure Quote of the day

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.

If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others.

love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.