Pleasure Quotes
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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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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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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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Playing an instrument is such a wonderful pleasure.
Grace Chatto
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
William Hazlitt
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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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Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.
John Milton
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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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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
Henry Ward Beecher
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This is something I never thought could possibly happen, ... It's a pleasure to come back.
Phil Jackson
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Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.
Socrates
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Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable
Stephen Dunn
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Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure.
Socrates
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An item must have a soul, it must function properly, be nice to hold and a pleasure to look at
Kay Bojesen
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My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.
Jane Elliot
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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 love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.
Stevie Smith
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Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
Gautama Buddha
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An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.
Herb Alpert
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I don't eat for pleasure; I eat for performance.
Bobby Lashley
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The reality show 'America's Next Top Model' is my girlie pleasure.
Estelle