Pleasure Quotes - Page 22

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.

The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.

To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

If I see a beautiful woman walking down the street, a pretty lady, I'll yell, 'Homo!' She can't get pissed, and I still get the pleasure of yelling at her.

Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

Don't ever turn down pleasure because you were afraid of what other people might say.

God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure.

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

My Pleasure is my business

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.