Quotes About Pleasure

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin with a grin.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

Your morning thoughts may determine your conduct for the day. Optimistic thoughts will make your day bright and productive, while pessimistic thinking will make it dull and wasteful. Face each day cheerfully, smilingly and courageously, and it will naturally follow that your work will be a real pleasure and progress will be a delightful accomplishment.

One man with a dream, at pleasure, Shall go forth and conquer a crown, And three with a new song's measure, Can trample an empire down.

Pleasure for an hour, a bottle of wine; pleasure for a year, marriage; pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail, grow indispensable.

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of indigestion.

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.

Sweets are good for the nerves.

Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.

When a man's busy, leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure; and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

The suffering of the rich is among the sweetest pleasures of the poor.

In this fool's paradise, he drank delight

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

One bliss for which there is no match is when you itch to up and scratch.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.