Pleasure Quotes - Page 25

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

The second greatest pleasure after love is talking about it.

Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

I can’t function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.