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Quotes About Pleasure

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.
~ Robert M. Parker, Jr.
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
~ Saint Augustine
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.
~ Shawn Colvin
Happiness has a very short half-life.
~ Tim Ferriss
Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes
~ Christie Brinkley
He wanted her to experience all the glorious cheese of life.
~ Christopher Moore
Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Life is good, but Wine is better.
~ Fernando Pessoa
What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.
~ Max Stirner
The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
~ Norman Douglas
Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
~ Oprah Winfrey
We should enjoy and make the most of life
~ Greg Graffin
Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.
~ Izaak Walton
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
~ Jane Austen
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
~ Cesare Pavese
Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
~ Charles Kuralt
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
~ David Starr Jordan
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.
~ Dean Koontz
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
~ Edward Thorndike
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
~ Felix Dennis
If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.
~ Amanda Beard
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
~ Ben Jonson