Pleasure Quotes
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It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.
Plato
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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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For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?
Honore de Balzac
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If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.
William Shakespeare
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Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.
Willard Gaylin
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Any manual skill gives its practitioner much personal pleasure, particularly when it is one that admits of constant improvement.
R. M. Williams
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BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more driving pleasure.
Norbert Reithofer
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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
Francis Bacon
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Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.
Armand Salacrou
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That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.
Carsten Jensen
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I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things.
Richard Feynman
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The next time you and somebody are in an elevator alone, give them the creepiest stare followed by the creepiest smile ever. While they're leaving, give them a crazy laugh and say, 'It was a meet to pleasure you'.
Dan Cummins
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By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
William Stanley Jevons
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The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
Erin Morgenstern
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To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
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A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.
Virginia Woolf
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So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.
Seneca the Younger
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
William Cowper
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If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.
Fanny Mendelssohn
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Jane Austen
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The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.
Eyvind Kang
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Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
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There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.
William McFee