Quotes about Pleasure

78 quotes about Pleasure

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you...

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about pleasure

In the family must master: the love, conception will, order, consciousness of duty. Not the pleasure, but pure joy, produced by the beauty of ideal. Between God and my people

Quote by Petre Țuțea about pleasure

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it...

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about pleasure

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure...

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.

Quote by Seneca about 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.

Quote by Maya Angelou about pleasure

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.

Quote by William Shakespeare about pleasure

The students who come to my class are very closely...

The students who come to my class are very closely related to all the evil girls who are very interested in their bodies and sex and pleasure.

Quote by Kathy Acker about pleasure

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

Quote by Douglas Adams about pleasure

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say...

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about pleasure

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the...

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Quote by Scott Adams about pleasure

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, ...

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about pleasure

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of...

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Quote by Russell Baker about pleasure

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this...

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Quote by Russell Baker about pleasure

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Quote by Joseph Addison about pleasure

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more...

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about pleasure

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so...

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Quote by Joseph Addison about pleasure

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, ...

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Quote by Joseph Addison about pleasure

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something....

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about pleasure

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about pleasure

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Quote by Aristotel about pleasure

Last quotes

Literary temponaut from the rebellious worlds of man, I... (Dumitru Găleşanu)

The mist has been removed from my eyes, under the icon of... (Dumitru Găleşanu)

There was a time when everything you said to me turned... (Dumitru Găleşanu)

The photon will have remained for me - as best suits a... (Dumitru Găleşanu)

Top quotes

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the... (William Blake)

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is... (Henry Ford)

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the... (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett)

Random quotes

Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not... (John Pearson)

As soon as the child is in the car and the car has left... (Edward A. Murphy)

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. (Thomas Stearns Eliot)

Giving is true having. (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

Authors

Famous quotes

Folklore