Pleasure Quotes - Page 50

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial, so I'd be hard pressed to feel embarrassed by anything I listen to. Besides, I have a three-year-old, so I don't have time for guilty pleasures anyway!

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure...

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.

It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.

There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

What do we value most? What would we most hate to lose? What do our thoughts turn to most frequently when we are free to think of what we will? And finally, what affords us the greatest pleasure?

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.