Pleasure Quotes - Page 13

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

The next greatest pleasure to love is to talk of love.

It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.