Pleasure Quotes

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot.

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.