Quotes About Pleasure

It is an intoxicating experience to taste Coca-Cola as if for the first time and to be conveyed to the very brink of orgasm by white bread. Makes all the discomfort worthwhile, if you ask me.

began to feel that queasy guilt that you can only know if you have lived among the English—a terrible suspicion that any pleasure involving more than a cup of milky tea and a chocolate digestive biscuit is somehow irreligiously excessive.

What a joy walking is. All the cares of life, all the hopeless, inept fuckwits that God has strewn along the Bill Bryson Highway of Life, suddenly seem far away and harmless, and the world becomes tranquil and welcoming and good. And to walk with old friends multiplies the pleasure a hundredfold.

The Danes are so full of joie de vivre that they practically sweat it. In a corner of Europe where the inhabitants have the most blunted concept of pleasure (in Norway, three people and a bottle of beer is a party; in Sweden, the national sport is suicide), the Danes' relaxed attitude to life is not so much refreshing as astonishing.

My father once owned a McGregor Glen Plaid Visa-Versa Reversible Jacket and got real pleasure from showing people, including total strangers, how you could turn it inside out and have a second, bonus jacket. "That's why it's called Visa-Versa," he would explain, as if revealing one of the secrets of the universe.

Everyone suffered the same affliction: an inability to think about much else except the meal you're having now and the one you're having next.

It was, I see now on reflection, not unlike alcohol or tobacco: disgusting, at first; pleasurable, with effort; addictive, over time. And perhaps, in the end, a little self-destroying.

According to the listing on the UNESCO website, "The gastronomic meal emphasizes togetherness, the pleasure of taste, and the balance between human beings and the products of nature.

I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!

HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!

You know what I like about summer days? They're just made for doing things... even if it's nothing. Especially if it's nothing.

Dad says that the anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it - Calvin

Day says the anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it.- Calvin

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

The sinners are much more fun.

Programming is like sex: It may give some concrete results, but that is not why we do it.

Programming is like sex: It may give some concrete results, but that is not why we do it. – apologies to Richard Feynman

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.

Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.

Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a way (1) that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure; (2) that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.

Nie betrieben die Menschen das Böse so umfassend und freudig wie aus religiöser Überzeugung.

the more innocent it appears to innocent souls, the more they are likely to be touched by it. Its violence pleases our self-love, which immediately forms a desire to produce the same effects which are seen so well represented

Hence it comes that men so much love noise and stir; hence it comes that the prison is so horrible a punishment; hence it comes that the pleasure of solitude is a thing incomprehensible. And it is in fact the greatest source of happiness in the condition of kings, that men try incessantly to divert them, and to procure for them all kinds of pleasures.