Quotes About Pleasure

Thy babbling tongue tells golden tales Of endless treasure; Thy bounty offers easy sales Of lasting pleasure; Thou ask'st the conscience what she ails, And swear'st to ease her: There's none can want where thou supply'st: There's none can give when thou deny'st. Alas! fond world, thou boast'st; false world thou ly'st.

Qué agradable es perder la noción del tiempo!

No hay gusto más descansado que después de haber cagado.

Y en la fornicación, que es un bien general, debe haber democracia libre, porque si no… va a haber que hacerlo por correspondencia…

People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

There was nothing like a martini to blunt the day and polish the night.

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or to joyless to live.

For the first time, vague doubts assaulted me, the shattering suspicion that for all pleasure and joy in life we had to pay ... I repel fear. If I had to pay I would pay, after all, the memory of ecstasy while pungisse its pain could never be erased.

The pleasure men take in denigration of the gifted is one of the puzzles of life

After a full belly all is poetry.

The buying of a whole bottle does not require that you drink the whole bottle. Mother's Rule of eating everything on your plate does not apply to alcohol.

There's too much lime in the world and not enough gin

There's too much lime in the world and not enough gin. —Frank O'Hara, from "Poem," The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara . (University of California Press March 31, 1995)

The Lord has made all things for Himself (Prov.xvi.4): apart from Himself there existed nothing to make them for. He made them for His own sake, for His own pleasure. But it was His pleasure to bring into existence things that could take pleasure in existence. For our sakes He made us for His sake. To us there is something mysterious in an altruism so total, but something exciting in the mystery. Among all the mysteries, many are greater, but it is hard to think of one more pleasing.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy.

The paradox of Italian soccer). As everyone knows, Italian men are the most foppish representatives of their sex on the planet. They smear on substantial quantities of hair care products and expend considerable mental energies color-coordinating socks with belts. Because of their dandyism, the world has Vespa, Prada, and Renzo Piano. With such theological devotion to aesthetic pleasure, it is truly perplexing that their national style of soccer should be so devoid of this quality.

Para sobrevivir necesitamos comer, hacer el amor y criar. La naturaleza ha hecho que todas estas actividades nos resulten placenteras, de modo que nos entregamos a ellas con facilidad y de manera voluntaria.

slavery is opposed to work...work presupposes liberty, responsibility, and consciousness...the more intelligence you bring to your work, the more pleasure you will have in it.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

His pleasure at seeing me was so genuine, so unmistakable, that even I, with my inbred suspicions, lost all fear.

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.