Pleasure Quotes - Page 45

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.

I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.