Pleasure Quotes

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

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.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

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.

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.