Quotes About Pleasure

Pues yo creo que esperar las cosas con ilusión es precisamente la mitad de su placer

Oh Marilla, ansiar pelas coisas é metade do prazer proporcionado por elas - exclamou Anne - Você pode até não conseguir essas coisas, mas nada pode lhe impedir de ter a diversão de ansiar por elas - Anne

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

This book will perhaps only be understood by those who have themselves already thought the thoughts which are expressed in it-or similar thoughts. It is therefore not a text-book. Its object would be attained if it afforded pleasure to one who read it with understanding.

Ebbene signor Meis,il destino di Roma è identico.I papi ne avevano fatto a modo loro,s'intende un'acquasantiera;noi italiani ne abbiamo fatto,a modo nostro,un portacenere.D'ogni paese siamo venuti qua a scuotervi la cenere del nostro sigaro,che è poi il simbolo della frivolezza di questa miserrima vita nostra e dell'amaro e velenoso piacere che essa ci da.

Whoever understands the game of life can no longer fool himself, but if you cannot fool yourself, you can no longer derive any pleasure or enjoyment from life. And so it goes, my work is full of compassion, bitter compassion for all those who fool themselves. But this compassion cannot help but be followed by ferocious derision of a destiny that condemns man to deception. And this succinctly is the reason for the bitterness of my art, and also my life.

Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or miters on their heads, shifts the scene of pleasure with endless variety, bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before them, and gluts them with every change of visionary luxury.

Good Lord, not again! What the devil is it with you and libraries that makes you unable to control yourself in them, James? You have always had a passion for books, but really! I fear she is right. I always have had a passion for libraries. Still, I never realised quite how much pleasure they could afford until I met you.

It is very chivalrous of you not to want to take my virginity, and I do understand and think it's honorable, but in one of the books I've read, they wrote of a way I could give you the same pleasure you gave me without you actually putting your maypole in me. What the devil have you been reading? Daniel got out in a choked voice as his erection jumped eagerly in his trousers.

One piece of cake in your life is better than never having any.

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with.

disse-lhe que era preciso ter paciência, que os desgostos eram a parte principal da vida; os prazeres eram a exceção…

something that I could call a lust for annoyance. The voluptuousness of annoyance

Infelizmente não há bonito sem senão, nem prazer sem amargura. Que mel não deixa um travo de veneno?

Lascivious one, the voluptuousness of nothing awaits you.

Then I pondered that tight boots are one of the greatest blessings on earth, for by causing one's feet to hurt, they make way for the pleasure of taking them off. Mortify your feet, wretch, then unmortify them, and there you have cheap happiness, befitting both shoemakers and Epicurus.

a dança é um prazer dos olhos. Esta opinião é um dos efeitos daquele mau costume de envelhecer

It occurred to me that tight boots are one of Earth's great good fortunes because, by pinching our feet, they then afford us the pleasure of taking them off.

You cannot deny me the fact," he said; "that the donor's pleasure is always greater than that of the beneficiary.

Then I pondered the fact that tight boots are one of the best bits of good fortune on earth, because by making one's feet hurt they give occasion to the pleasure of taking them off. Punish your feet, wretch, then unpunish them and there you have cheap happiness, at the mercy of shoemakers and worthy of Epicurus.'' The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis

Pentru ca viaÈ›a-i scurt?, cu mult? suferin??, È™i f?r? cazn? trai nu-i cu putin?? conduÈ™i de pofte È™i dorinÈ›i noi ne petrecem È™i ne roadem anii; cin` la pl?ceri renun?? doar str?danii g?seÈ™te, chin È™i suferinÈ›i; de-a lumii am?gire acela n-are È™tire, nici de-ntâmpl?ri-i sucite, de orori ce-apas? greu pe-atâÈ›ia muritori. (M?tr?guna)

Our country in general assumes that the pursuit of happiness really means the pursuit of pleasure and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.