Quotes About Pleasure

A wise politician, when asked if he were for or against Prohibition, answered: If by alcohol, you mean the dangerous drink which destroys families, than I am fully for Prohibition. But if, by alcohol, you mean noble drink which promotes good fellowship and makes every meal a pleasure, then I am against it.

If you didn't do anything that wasn't good for you it would be a very dull life. What are you gonna do? Everything that is pleasant in life is dangerous. Have you noticed that? I'd like to find the bastard that thought that one up.

This entire generation seems to have become pussies, you know? Nobody seems to enjoy themselves much anymore.They are all knocking each other down for enjoying themselves.

My ethic is: 'Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.' You can be as careful as you want, but you're going to die anyway, so why not have fun?

As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [...]

As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [...]

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

she was so afraid of everything that she made it impossible to really enjoy anything at all.

Dessert is the most important meal of the day!

The dumplings had the flavor of paradise, and the broth spread through my veins like a secret that's fun to keep.

It is true, of course, that you never know. A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

I liked this bread.

El salmón no tiene nada de malo, claro está, pero al igual que las golosinas, el yogur de fresa y el limpiaalfombras líquido, si se come en exceso no se disfruta.

An Irish clergyman was present at a dinner where someone asked what the greatest pleasure was, and Johnson replied, "Fucking." He added that the second best was drinking, "and therefore he wondered why there were not more drunkards, for all could drink, though not all could fuck."47

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.

Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.

Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

pleasure from observing the urban scene completely objectively and aesthetically.

The only light was a standing lamp by his chair, near his elbow was a drink. He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.

There are some things of far more value than gold. For instance, a life free from cares or duties of any kind; a life in which every day and every hour brings its share of pleasure and satisfaction, of excitement, of happily earned and well-enjoyed fatigue.

Stanislaus Jean, chevalier de Boufflers, once wrote: "Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume." How can it be that our pleasure is as fleeting as the flower? —DB