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Quotes About Pleasure

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.
~ Philip Massinger
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.
~ Rick Astley
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
~ John Mortimer
Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.
~ Herman E. Daly
When pages that promote female pleasure are hidden, we understand that our pleasure is invalid,
~ Jillian York
Simply put, Rick was like cheesecake—sinfully rich, luscious, and oh-so-bad for you.
~ Jilliane Hoffman
I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.
~ Jim Bishop
We are a heathen company, more devoted to the customs and the Holy days than to the Holiness itself. We find more pleasure in the song and dance of God than in the piety.
~ Jim Crace
El placer estriba en que te engañen sin ser capaz de descubrir cómo lo hicieron.
~ Jim Hougan
He picked her up and tossed her on the bed. They had a hell of a time. But afterward, after she had gone back to her own room, depression came to him and what had seemed like such a hell of a time became distasteful, even a little disgusting. It was the depression of surfeit, the tail of selfindulgence's kit. You flew high, wide, and handsome, imposing on the breeze that might have wafted you along indefinitely; and then it was gone, and down, down, down you went.
~ Jim Thompson
Fun is about as good a habit as there is.
~ Jimmy Buffet
According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhis, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.
~ Jimmy Carter
Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them.
~ Jimmy Demaret
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
~ Jimmy Demaret
Everyone at heaven's banquet table has utensils strapped to both of their hands too long to scoop food and return it to their own mouths. So, in heaven, every couple at the table joyfully serves each other. They simply tell each other what foods they desire to eat, and they are served. It is a beautiful picture of the pleasure and fulfillment that can occur when a servant spirit is present.
~ Jimmy Evans
When it comes to books, I am a sensuous woman.
~ Jincy Willett
Oh, it's so good
~ Jo Beverley
Fuck me, Gray. Make me forget my own name." He couldn't speak for her, but he certainly forgot his.
~ Jo Davis
Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I'm doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.
~ Jo Walton
I got to help make dinner. You can't imagine the pleasure of wiping mushrooms and grating cheese when you haven't had a chance to do it for a long time. Then eating food you have cooked, or help cook, always tastes so much better. Auntie
~ Jo Walton
Vai assim, vem outro café, se pita um bom cigarro.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
the while there were smiles on the two faces that told of their pleasure in dancing and their happiness at being together. Jill watched, wide-eyed. 'They are absolutely brilliant! Oh, how I wish me mam and dad could see them, they'd be so proud.' 'Well they
~ Joan Jonker
Sometimes just to look at Miranda's calm oval face and straight corn-yellow hair gave her a sharp little stab of pleasure.
~ Joan Lindsay