Pleasure Quotes

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.

The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.

I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.