Pleasure Quotes - page 14

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory. (Zig Ziglar)
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself. View quote
Francis Bacon
Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'. View quote
John Calvin
No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail to his good pleasure. If we put ourselves in such a frame of mind, then, whatever may happen to us, we shall never feel miserable or accuse God falsely because of our lot. View quote
John Calvin
It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure. View quote
John Calvin
Desire, to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain of suffocation. Such sadism was not called for then and is not called for now. But if fornication is wrong, there is no denying that it can bring pleasure. The death of Saddam Hussein at rope's end brings a pleasure that is undeniable, and absolutely chaste in its provenance. View quote
William F. Buckley
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde. Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde, Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves; Knightis and Barons live for pleasure and themselves. View quote
Thomas Chatterton
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. View quote
George Sand
We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves. View quote
African Spir
He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure. View quote
John Steinbeck
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. View quote
Richard Feynman
A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning. View quote
Virginia Woolf
By the mercy of the Lord, you have been given a guru, so your selflessness is simply a matter of serving your guru with more love and care. Give up all of your individualized desires and live for his pleasure, as he lived and lives for you. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
It is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger. View quote
Heraclitus
The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her at our pleasure. View quote
Heinrich Hertz
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication. (Michel de Montaigne)
But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. View quote
Thucydides
Learning should be a pleasure, and children should grow up to imagine wisdom with a smiling face, not a fierce and terrifying one. View quote
Sarah Bakewell
Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure. View quote
Democritus
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting. View quote
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