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Quotes About Pleasure

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
~ Nancy Mitford
Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.
~ Radhanath Swami
And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
~ William Shakespeare
If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.
~ Arthur Smith
If I have chocolate around, I will eat it. I love it, I love it, I love it. I like a piece every day.
~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus
I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.
~ Tyra Banks
I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
~ Simon Van Booy
If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.
~ Spalding Gray
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.
~ Groucho Marx
I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.
~ Jacques Pepin
Love ice cream. I let myself have that about once a week. Vanilla.
~ Tim Tebow
I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.
~ Tom T. Hall
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
~ Moliere
I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.
~ Maya Angelou
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
~ Mortimer Adler
I eat mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but I think it should be enjoyed on occasion - like cheesecake or blackouts.
~ Nadia Giosia
It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel
~ Lord Byron
Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
It comes down to having fun and doing what I love.
~ B.J. Penn
Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
~ William Penn
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
~ Annie Dillard