Pleasure Quotes - Page 23

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.

Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

Art rides in on pleasure.

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

Pleasure itself is not a vice

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.

Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the utmost pleasure for the dedicated.