Pleasure Quotes

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.

I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.