Pleasure Quotes - Page 18

economy spoils pleasure

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.

When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.

Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties and pleasures, but without the drawbacks - with all the assets but none of the liabilities.

In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begged the question of their efficacy and doomed itself to inconsequence.

To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.