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Quotes About Pleasure

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I was a grave digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
~ Douglas Jerrold
Tis better than riches To scratch when it itches.
~ Anonymous
An indecent mind is a perpetual feast.
~ Old saying
There is a pleasure sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!
~ John Dryden
You must have discipline to have fun.
~ Julia Child
A little of what you fancy does you good.
~ Marie Lloyd
Felicity, felicity ... is quaffed out of a golden cup ... the flavour is with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
~ Joseph Conrad
There will be sex after death; we just won't be able to feel it.
~ Lily Tomlin
Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
~ Woody Allen
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
~ George Santayana
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
~ Samuel Butler
The main obligation is to amuse yourself.
~ S. J. Perelman
There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
~ Cicero
Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.
~ Anonymous
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
~ John Churton Collins
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
~ Anacharsis
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
~ Proverbs
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
~ Victor Hugo
The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.
~ Joanna Baillie
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
~ Emily Dickinson
For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die.
~ Charles Lamb
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?
~ Oscar Wilde
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
~ Moliere
Vice goes a long way tow'rd makin' life bearable. A little vice now an' thin is relished by th' best iv men.
~ Finley Peter Dunne