Pleasure Quotes - Page 14

To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort.

I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.

Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

The hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men.

As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.

... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.

The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

The sexual drive is nothing but the motor memory of previously remembered pleasure.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.