Pleasure Quotes - Page 2

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

You will never understand pleasure without pain.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear.

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.