Quotes About Pleasure

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

When the Christian praises and gives thanks to God, this not only pleases God, but it enriches the Christian's life with joy. It is a reciprocating transaction between God and man.

I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates

Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day. Otherwise, it's going to be a bad day. I also love Jelly Bellies. But that's bad. Don't tell my mom.

Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her cooking.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

Money can't buy happiness—but it can buy beer.

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has clearly never spent their money on pizza.