Pleasure Quotes - Page 29

It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]

There is no small pleasure in pure water.

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.

Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.