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Quotes About Pleasure

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
~ Marquis de Sade
Neymar is the representative of the Brazil team, of what we're all about. Being in the squad alongside him is always a pleasure, and we always have more chance of being champions if he's around.
~ Douglas Costa
I have been one of the fortunate people to work with A R Rahman in a film and also many stage shows. It is always a pleasure.
~ Neeti Mohan
Satisfaction is a major player in the happiness stakes.
~ Ann Widdecombe
I think there's something that feels so good about a 1-4-5 chord progression. It's a very standard chord progression, and it just feels good to the ears.
~ Ben Gibbard
From a shallow standpoint, I like nice things.
~ Masego
Let no man thirst for good beer.
~ Samuel Adams
Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.
~ Joan Collins
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God
~ Jonathan Edwards
There's not a man, woman or child on the face of the earth who doesn't enjoy a tasty beverage.
~ David Letterman
A man with a dream of pleasure can go forth and conquer a crowd and three. With a new song's measure can trample a kingdom down.
~ Fred Shero
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
~ Oscar Wilde
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
~ Martin Luther
A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.
~ Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!
~ Hunter S. Thompson
A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.
~ Socrates
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.
~ Charles M. Schwab
Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.
~ David O. McKay
If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
~ Gautama Buddha
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
~ Aristotle
All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
~ George Bernard Shaw