Pleasure Quotes
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On the one hand, it is a duty, and on the other hand it is a pleasure to help those who feel worse than you.
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Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.
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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
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Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.
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You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure.
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The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.
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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
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Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.
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Business first, then pleasure.
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
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And oh! I shall find how, day by day, All thoughts and things look older; How the laugh of pleasure grows less gay, And the heart of friendship colder.
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I hope people enjoy what I do. That would make me happy because I'd be bringing others pleasure while doing something I like.
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For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'.
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I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even the hair and makeup. Editing is thrilling. Everything to do with films is absorbing - everything but the money part, the business. But I'm deeply glad I've had that experience.
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Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.
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I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to go to work on this every day was an absolute pleasure and that comes from the top.
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Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Every time I come home, it is the same great pleasure to lie down in my bed. That's when I think, 'home sweet home.'
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The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.
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We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.
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Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.
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There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.
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True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments.
