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Quotes About Pleasure

Necessity brings him here, not pleasure.
~ Durante degli Alighieri
Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.
~ Durante degli Alighieri
Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.
~ Dutch proverb
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.
~ Dwight D Eisenhower
Our pleasures were simple-they included survival.
~ Dwight David Eisenhower
But emotion, for most people, too often is like some sort of slumbering giant, lulled to sleep by preoccupation with the dead facts of that outer world we call objective. When we look at a painting, we see a price tag. A trip is logistics more than pleasure. Romance dies in household routine. Yet life without feeling is a sort of death.
~ Dwight V. Swain
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
~ Kinky Friedman
Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.
~ Victor Cherbuliez
There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.
~ Victoria Glendinning
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
~ Epicurus
Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
~ Jack Kerouac
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
~ Jane Austen, Persuasion
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
~ Rita Mae Brown
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.
~ Hugh Black
What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.
~ Julianne Moore
Sexual touch is the dessert of married life!
~ Laura M. Brotherson
Life is short, have dessert first.
~ Wendy Mass
In Heaven, to look into God's eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for His own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time.
~ Randy Alcorn
What's life if you're not enjoying it?
~ Chamillionaire
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
~ Joseph Campbell
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet
~ Lord Byron
Life is not about finding yourself. It's mostly about chocolate. T-Shirt
~ Darynda Jones
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
~ Jonathan Swift
Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.
~ Siegbert Tarrasch