Pleasure Quotes
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Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.
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For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.
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I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies but that was considered very wonderful. I would prefer to sell 20,000 copies because the readers loved it. When I write books I don't actually think about the market in that way. I just tell myself the story. I don't think I'm talking to a 10-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. I just write on the level the story seems to call for.
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Anticipation makes pleasure more intense...
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I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment.
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There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
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I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh turns into a cackle. And I sit here, and smoke my Camel straights, and I ride my own melt.
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I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.
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After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.
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The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
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Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
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There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.
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Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.
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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.
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The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
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Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox.
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Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
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If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward.
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I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure.
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Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
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Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
