Pleasure Quotes
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
The reality show 'America's Next Top Model' is my girlie pleasure.
Estelle
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
Henry Ward Beecher
Playing an instrument is such a wonderful pleasure.
Grace Chatto
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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
Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.
Napoleon Hill
If gender is eradicated, so too is an important domain of pleasure for many people. And others have a strong sense of self bound up with their genders, so to get rid of gender would be to shatter their self-hood.
Judith Butler
Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.
Epictetus
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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I bought abandon dear And sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.
Abu Nuwas
One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.
Walter Hilton
A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
Carter Burwell
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.
William McFee
One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex.
Nick Bantock
And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.
John Milton
Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.
William Wordsworth
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
Seneca the Younger
