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Pleasure Quotes - Page 24

A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.

A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.225, Penguin

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.267, Frog Books

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.475

It was a pleasure to burn.

Fahrenheit 451 pt. 1 (1954)

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.335

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.

Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.2

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings : Enriched with an Elegant Portrait of the Author”, p.258

And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.

Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, William Shenstone (1861). “Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone”, p.9

I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.

"'The Killing' Mireille Enos interview: 'I thought controversy was great'". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. September 23, 2011.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Michel de Montaigne, James Hain Friswell (1866). “Essays by Montaigne. [A selection.] Edited, compared, revised, and annotated by the Author of “The Gentle Life” [J. H. Friswell].”, p.318