Pleasure Quotes - Page 36

Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

The only pleasure of endurance is its past tense.

India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected.

Each must drain His share of pleasure, share of pain.

Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

Making the effort is quite a pleasure in itself.

For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.

Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.

Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures.

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce.

Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves;Knightis and Barons live for pleasure and themselves.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.

Pleasure comes, but not to stay;Even this shall pass away.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

I own your pleasure," I whispered into his mouth. "I'll take it if you won't give it to me.

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.