Pleasure Quotes
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For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.
Virginia Woolf
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Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!
Jim Elliot
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I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.
Don Henley The Eagles
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Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?
Confucius
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I don't make music to win awards. I learned a long time ago that the biggest pleasure I can have is hearing people sing my songs.
Silvestre Dangond
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Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.
Israel ben Eliezer
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The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.
William McFee
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A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.
Terry Brooks
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Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.
Queen Christina
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Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.
William Francis Buckley
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What are you gonna fill your life up with when you don't have that ultimate satisfaction or peace in your life? You try to fill it up with wealth, pleasure, honor, power, sex, drugs and Rock and Roll to try to feel good.
Dion
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Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
A. S. Byatt
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The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.
Baruch Spinoza
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What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.
William J. H. Boetcker
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I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
George Edward Woodberry
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Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
A. Lawrence Lowell
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
William Hazlitt
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I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
Jane Austen
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What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated. What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.
Oprah Winfrey
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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
Oscar Wilde
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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
Oscar Wilde
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A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.
Socrates
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If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd glove, a faded flower; Something that makes my pleasure less, Something that means--forgetfulness.
Nathaniel Parker Willis