pleasure quotes

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

I don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‚Is it good? Does it give pleasure?‘

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Rascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others‘ company.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.