Pleasure Quotes - Page 39

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

There is more of fear than delight in a secret pleasure.

No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.

If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?

I do my job. I love my job. It's the best job I ever had. And it's probably the best job I will ever have. And I serve at the pleasure of the president. That's true of President Obama. That will be true of President Trump. And if and when a president decides that they want to replace me, I'll ride off into the sunset.

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

There is no pleasure that I haven't actually made myself sick on.

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

When you're seeking after bodily pleasure of food and drink for example, this is going to prevent you from doing what you should be doing which is contemplating.

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.

I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

Every pleasure you forgoe on Earth is a pleasure you won't get in heaven.

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.