Pleasure Quotes - Page 26

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

The pleasure was all yours.

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.

As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.

I'm at the stage in life where I get a lot of pleasure out of finding a cheap stock.

I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.

Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.