Pleasure Quotes - Page 21

Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.

Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder.

I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of the hunt.

The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

Of troubles know I none, Of pleasures know I many - I rove beneath the sun, Without a single penny.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

Pleasure is everything.