Pleasure Quotes - Page 35

I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright.

God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.

The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.

Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund

Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.

We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

Who pleases one against his will.

If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.