Quotes About Pleasure

Show yourself more human than critical and your pleasure will increase.

They covered their walls with beautiful paintings for the same reason they drank—to distract themselves from the abyss.

unmarried women make good academics because they've been neutered by too much knowledge and bookish pleasure. The world hands them a tiny domain it never cared about to begin with.

But what can be learned from trivia? A history of inventions reveals we made the gun silencer (1908) before air conditioning (1911), the kaleidoscope (1817) before Braille printing (1829), cocaine (1860) before penicillin (1929). It's a story about pleasure before usefulness, about ingenuity in killing before improving our everyday lives." The Beautiful Miscellaneous,

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.

Avoid any diet that dicourages the use of hot fudge.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

Giorgio cannot leave a bottle undrunk or an attractive woman unfucked, and those activities tend to get in the way of revolution.

prefer married women and expensive whores. You have a nice meal, a few laughs, a good fuck, and then you each go back to your own lives. It's better that way." So

Then he drinks, eats, and fucks.

Luis hopes for heaven. Keller fears hell. Vera fears only death, and that because he takes such pleasure in life.

Old men, he thinks, take their fading pleasures where they can.

Everything I like will kill me

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."12

Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.

Exaptation, in which a trait evolved for one function can co-opt a new function, is commonplace in nature. We use sex to procreate, but also to bond, play, heal, and enjoy pleasure.

a scientific experiment to test whether new rules of physics could spark fascinating life forms whose creativity and pleasure was worth the pain they suffered.

I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.

In # France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.