Pleasure Quotes

Now shall I walk or shall I ride? 'Ride,' Pleasure said; 'Walk,' Joy replied.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving.

When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere.

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

Buy a condom, ribbed for her pleasure. Turn it inside out, now it's ribbed for your pleasure.

He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

I'm a big believer that you can try to change the world based on philosophy, doctrine, and belief. But I think the thing that really drives the world is hedonism, the pleasure factor.

Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and contribute to the realisation of your goal or ideal.

The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

All the gifts and talents we have are from God, but they are also for God...for His glory and for His pleasure. Don't waste them, make great use of them and make Him proud.

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: Is it good? Does it give pleasure?

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.

It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss.

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Show yourself more human than critical, and then your Pleasure will increase.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

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 to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.