Quotes About Pleasure

Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.

I don't let birdies and pars get in the way of having a good time

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

my pleasure was in the strength of my back, in my noble shoulders, the cool smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.

What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.

Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

God won't give the devil the pleasure of receiving a priest.

Then Monsieur is satisfied? asked Planchet. My dear Planchet, I am the happiest of men! And I may profit by Monsieur's happiness, and go to bed?

Beneath passion and beyond pleasure, there is always a trace of remorse.

happiness makes even wicked men good, …

comme ses ordres étaient toujours clairs, précis et faciles à exécuter, ses compagnons lui obéissaient non seulement avec promptitude, mais encore avec plaisir.