Quotes About Pleasure

All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.

To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

The Yogis say that the man who has discriminating powers, the man of good sense, sees through all that are called pleasure and pain, and knows that they come to all, and that one follows and melts into the other; he sees that men follow an ignis fatuus all their lives, and never succeed in fulfilling their desires.

After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, and that he learns as much from evil as from good.

The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for.

The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for.

Ok. Sex is fine. Sex is good. Sex is GREAT Okay, okay, we need men for sex... Do we need so many

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

I'll have another bowl of your wonderful soup!

It's probably best for me to work off some energy before I get you naked. I'm sure you'd like to be able to walk tomorrow.

Romance isn't in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are. Let me show you.

Here lay she, still reverberating the pleasure long laid aside and never forgotten.