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Quotes About Pleasure

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.
~ George Eliot
To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
~ Rajneesh
The soul's joys are greater than the heart's pleasures.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Booze, broads and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?
~ Harry Caray
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
~ Eric Liddell
I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
~ Mike Tyson
A lot of people say they love running because of how they feel afterward. Not me. Well, I love that, too, but it's also so much fun while I'm out there.
~ Dick Beardsley
Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.
~ Joe Paterno
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
~ William Cowper
I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It was a pleasure to play at Old Trafford.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.
~ Roger Bannister
Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.
~ Alan Turing
I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.
~ Alasdair Gray
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
~ Albert Einstein
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
~ Albert Einstein
Bisognerebbe evitare di predicare ai giovani il successo nella solita forma come lo scopo principale nella vita. Il motivo più importante per lavorare a scuola e nella vita è il piacere nel lavoro, piacere nel suo risultato, e la consapevolezza del valore del risultato per la comunità.
~ Albert Einstein
Jamais considere seus estudos como uma obrigação, mas como uma oportunidade invejável para aprender a conhecer a influência libertadora da beleza do reino do espírito, para seu próprio prazer pessoal e para proveito da comunidade à qual seu futuro trabalho pertencer.
~ Albert Einstein
Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.
~ Alberto Manguel
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.
~ Alberto Manguel
Butter is true divinity
~ Alcott
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
~ Aldous Huxley
I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
~ Aldous Huxley
Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power....
~ Aldous Huxley