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Quotes About Pleasure

Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men...
~ John Milton
Chocolate, men, coffee — some things are better rich.
~ Author Unknown
I don't understand decaf, it's like sex without the sex.
~ A.C. Van Cherub, 2008
Happiness sugars my coffee.
~ Terri Guillemets
Coffee — the pleasing nectar of Goddess Morning.
~ Terri Guillemets
Cooking... It's something you do every day. You might as well have a good time.
~ Mary Solaro, 1969
All people with healthy physical appetites have a sweet tooth somewhere in their heads.
~ Macmillan's Magazine, 1887
Desserts are the fairy tales of dining — a happily-ever-after to supper.
~ Terri Guillemets
Coffee, and I'm a warrior Tea, a philosopher Wine, a lover Water, a napper.
~ Terri Guillemets
The path to obesity is so tasty.
~ John Hubbard, 2016
To many of us, the first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
~ Isaac Asimov
When the stomach is full the heart is glad.
~ Dutch proverb
Is there anything like the odor of strawberries? The next best thing to tasting them is to smell them; one may put his nose to the dish while the fruit is yet too rare and choice for his fingers. Touch not and taste not, but take a good smell and go mad!
~ John Burroughs
And it is in games that many men discover their paradise.
~ Robert Lynd
Visits always give pleasure — if not the arrival, the departure.
~ Portuguese Proverb
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best—," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
~ A.A. Milne
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
~ Samuel Johnson, 1759
For my own part I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better... To lie there careless of everything, quiet and warm, and with no weight upon the mind... to watch the soft shadows come and go upon the ceiling... not only to be a lotus-eater but to know that it was one's duty to be a lotus-eater.
~ Samuel Butler, 1870s
Hot chocolate is like a hug from the inside.
~ Violet Sueno, unverified
Man no longer follows instinct with the old natural fidelity. He has developed into a reasoning creature, and can intellectually cling to life or discard life just as life happens to promise great pleasure or pain.
~ Jack London
Yasalara uymak, ac?dan uzak olmay? sa?lar ve mutluluk getirirdi.
~ Jack London
Tan solo clasificó las cosas que dolían y las cosas que no dolían. Y después de aquella clasificación evitó las cosas dolorosas, las restricciones y los frenos para disfrutar de las satisfacciones y las recompensas de la vida.
~ Jack London
There is one gift above all others that makes man unique among the animals, and it is the gift displayed everywhere here: his immense pleasure in exercising and pushing forward his own skill.
~ Jacob Bronowski
The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better. You see it in his science. You see it in the magnificence with which he carves and builds, the loving care, the gaiety, the effrontery. The monuments are supposed to commemorate kings and religions, heroes, dogmas, but in the end the man they commemorate is the builder.
~ Jacob Bronowski