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Quotes About Pleasure

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
~ William Congreve
Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.
~ Horace
I think that women don't bother disguising their desire and pleasure in dressing up, and that men, for whatever reason, tend to be a little more embarrassed.
~ Hugh Dancy
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
~ John Locke
The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.
~ Erwin W. Lutzer
The love of wine is a good man's failing.
~ Aristophanes
Safe men are for marrying. Dangerous men are for pleasure.
~ Lisa Kleypas
All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.
~ Meher Baba
The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.
~ Henry Van Dyke
It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.
~ Izaak Walton
Wine is only sweet to happy men.
~ John Keats
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.
~ Samuel Butler
Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure.
~ William Shakespeare
Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.
~ George Farquhar
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.
~ George Santayana
Chocolate, coffee, and ice cream were far more reliable when it came to providing a good time, and at least they would never disappoint me.
~ Keri Arthur, The Darkest Kiss
The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.
~ Alexander Lowen
Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.
~ Alexander Pope
Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.
~ Anais Nin
Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.
~ Andrew Sharp
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
~ Arthur Helps
That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.
~ Benjamin Franklin