Pleasure Quotes - page 13

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure. (Jonathan Edwards (theologian))
[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying-but entirely bogus-rumble of pleasure. View quote
Michael Chabon
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. View quote
Mortimer Adler
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. View quote
Marcel Achard
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. View quote
Anacharsis
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. View quote
Tony Benn
I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right, it's still a pleasure. View quote
Elmore Leonard
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater; not because the pleasure it gives (although very pure) is comparable, either in intensity or in the number of people who feel it, to that of music, but because it gives in absolute perfection that combination, characteristic of great art, of godlike freedom, with the sense of inevitable destiny; because, in fact, it constructs an ideal world where everything is perfect and yet true. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself. (Theodore Roosevelt)
The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Every one of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to be overreached in a bargain, to be neglected by those who rise in life, to be thrust on one side by those who have stronger wills and stouter hearts. Every one knows, also, the pleasure of receiving a kind look, a warm greeting, a hand held out to help in distress, a difficulty solved, a higher hope revealed for this world or the next. By that pain and by that pleasure let us judge what we should do to others. View quote
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or through pleasure and pain. View quote
Ptolemy
Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Labor is itself a pleasure. View quote
Marcus Manilius
Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love. View quote
Alan Watts
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure. View quote
Gregory Benford
Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. ... When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty. (Baltasar Gracián)
Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man. View quote
Muhammad Ali
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. View quote
Gene Wolfe
I have not the pleasure of understanding you. View quote
Jane Austen
And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it. View quote
Jane Austen