Pleasure Quotes - Page 10

Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.

I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.

The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.

Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a fragment, whereas the whole and the complete and the perfect are basically abhorrent.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

Plan for pleasure for each and every day.

If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.