Quotes About Pleasure

There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated." [ Saturday Evening Post , September 27, 1958]

There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food.

Eran días de irresponsable plenitud, de felicidad imperceptible.

El deseo es el recuerdo del placer, el miedo es el recuerdo del dolor" Cuentos para adultos infantiles

Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave most anytime. Not that I mind too much; I've done everything I ever wanted to do. But ... as you know, one would like to continue doing the good things over and over again, so long as there's pleasure in it.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

Those visionary strains, ever struggling to translate into wild and broken sounds the language of unearthly beings, breathed around her from her birth. Thus you might have said that her whole mind was full of music; associations, memories, sensations of pleasure or pain,—all were mixed up inexplicably with those sounds that now delighted and now terrified; that greeted her when her eyes opened to the sun, and woke her trembling on her lonely couch in the darkness of the night.

Honest men have very little fun in life. It's a well-known fact.

The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand.

M'm, M'm good.

Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.

Good to the last drop!

'Tis better than riches To scratch when it itches.

If you get melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.

Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is.

I don't drown my sorrows; I suffocate them with chocolate.