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Quotes About Pleasure

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
~ Oscar Wilde
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
~ William Congreve
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
~ Joyce Cary
The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.
~ John Wilmot
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.
~ Tennessee Williams
Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.
~ Andrew Solomon
Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.
~ Aphra Behn
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Marry'd in hast we may repent at leisure.
~ William Congreve
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition
~ Rudyard Kipling
No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.
~ Ibn Taymiyyah
A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
~ Queen Victoria
When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.
~ Spartacus
Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.
~ Hafez
There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.
~ Ptolemy
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it
~ Samuel Johnson
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.
~ Sonya Levien
Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.
~ Andrew Boorde
A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.
~ Curt Siodmak
See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low.
~ Mariah Carey
Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
~ Hippocrates
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
~ Honore de Balzac