Quotes About Pleasure

Besides, it is my pleasure to watch you suffer.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food

Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.

To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.

I have always loved the Brownies so much, and so earnestly wished to believe in them, that I have taught myself to do so, and I want other to have that same pleasure.

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.

The famous "O bell'età de l'oro" in Torquato Tasso's Aminta (1573) is not so much a eulogy of Arcady as an invective against the constrained and conscience-ridden spirit of Tasso's own period, the age of the Counter-Reformation. Flowing hair and nude bodies are bound and concealed, deportment and carriage have lost touch with nature; the very spring of pleasure is polluted, the very gift of Love perverted into theft.

To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

The purpose of your life is Joy. Your objective is to seek joy. Your objective is to find appreciation or pleasure or positive thought from wherever you stand, no matter how you got there. And when you align with that Energy, you are fulfilling your purpose.

Good energy, even if it's not focused. Bad technique, but that's understandable and it can be corrected. Too much enthusiasm. There's no shame in honorable combat, but there shouldn't be so much unnatural pleasure. The man with the greatest thirst for blood ends up drinking at Hades's table.

philosophy is a non-knowledge: thought takes pleasure in measuring its borders

I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh turns into a cackle. And I sit here, and smoke my Camel straights, and I ride my own melt.

simple joys are the great ones. Pleasure is not complicated.

J'aime ce qui me nourrit : le boire, le manger, les livres.

La musique est la volupté de l'imagination.

Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.

Gimme a whiskey—ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

The candy cap was a revelation to me: redolent with the smell of maple, marvelously silky and spongy in texture, earth and meaty and sweet. When you eat a candy cap, your skin smells like maple sugar. When you exercise after eating a candy cap, your sweat smells like maple sugar. When you make love after eating a candy cap . . . well, I leave that to your imagination, but . . . yes.

READING HOMER'S POEMS is one of the purest, most inexhaustible pleasures life has to offer—a secret somewhat too well kept in our time.