Quotes About Pleasure

The zeitgeist tells us that we 'should' prefer dark chocolate much the same as we should prefer wine, coffee, and whiskey with flavor profiles that run toward the extreme. But sometimes I just want to eat something accessible and enjoyable without embarking on a cerebral tasting exercise.

I have zero morals about television. I just want to be entertained.

You know you're living with the habit of zest if you purposefully choose the scenic route to wherever you are going. Or you choose clothing because you love the texture of the fabric. Or you pick a shampoo or cleaning product because you love the smell - smell being just as important to you as how the product works.

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived; less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.

To make pleasure pleasant, shorten.

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal superabundance.

It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

The price spoils the pleasure.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.

The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same.

A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry.

Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.

Let us eat and drink: for tomorrow we diet.

Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.