Quotes About Pleasure

The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't; it just keeps you from enjoying it.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing anything. It just keeps you from enjoying it.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons.

Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake.

God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.

Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you wont be punished

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

People are always in good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

There are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

What is written without effort in general is read without pleasure.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.