Quotes About Pleasure

Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and love.

There was nothing wrong with having a good time as long as she didn't have to have one herself.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

I can't function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure.

Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

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

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.