Pleasure Quotes

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity.

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.