Pleasure Quotes
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Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
William Wycherley
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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
Vita Sackville-West
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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.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.
Alan Alda
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.
John Tillotson
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I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.
Walter Hilton
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I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
L. Ron Hubbard
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The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
Epictetus
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann Hesse
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STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark reflections. It's one of the better single-author collections I've had the pleasure to read in recent years, and as such, gets my highest recommendation. It's also a fine testament to a talent I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot more from, and soon.
Kealan Patrick Burke
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If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless.
Andrew the Apostle
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While experiencing painful feeling, he seeks delight in sensual pleasure. For what reason? Because the uninstructed worldling does not know of any escape from painful feeling other than sensual pleasure. When he seeks delight in sensual pleasure, the underlying tendency to lust for pleasant feeling lies behind this. He does not understand as it really is the origin and the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in the case of these feelings.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
Thomas More
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
Bill Vaughan
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Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.
Thomas Dewar
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It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
Demosthenes
