Quotes About Pleasure

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.

There rose no day there rolled no hour Of pleasure unembittered; And not a trapping decked my Power That galled not while it glittered.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

todos somos trozos del mismo barro, pobres monos condenados a buscar placer, soportar dolor y tirar adelante

Peloton with a large monitor and spin shoes hanging on the back. Yoga mat. Weights. It all screams of an aging Olympian going soft around the middle, losing his edge, and worrying about it. This fills me with a sadistic spurt of pleasure.

There's a term for this irrational fear of joy: cherophobia (chero is the Greek word for "rejoice"). People with cherophobia are like Teflon pans in terms of pleasure—it doesn't stick (though pain cakes on them as if to an ungreased surface).

She hadn't expected to experience this pleasure in her grief, to find it invigorating, in a way. But even as she's dying, she's realized, life goes on—even as the cancer invades her body, she still checks Twitter. At first she thought, Why would I waste even ten minutes of the time I have left checking Twitter? And then she thought, Why wouldn't I? I like Twitter!

joy isn't pleasure; it's anticipatory pain.

sure, I've heard the weight-loss gurus spouting their "nothing tastes as good as being thin feels" mantra, and as I've said before—BULLSHIT. The times in my life when I have been thin, I enjoyed it well enough, but trust me, PLENTY of stuff tastes WAY better than being thin feels. For that matter, come to think of it, FEELING FULL FEELS better than being thin does.

Strength is the ability to break up a solid piece of chocolate—and then eat just one of the pieces.

Chocolate is not a matter of life and death--it's more important than that.

Chocolate is cheaper than therapy, and you don't need an appointment.

Oh boy. His chest was smooth and warm and hard as stone, and she wanted to both touch and nibble. And lick. Could she pretty please lick?

Okay, so maybe chocolate doesn't make the world go around, but it sure makes the trip worthwhile.

Maybe man cannot live on chocolate alone, but a woman can.

A glass of wine is always the solution. Even if you aren't sure of the problem." PHOEBE TRAEGER

Chocolate is good for three things. Two of them can't be mentioned in polite company.

What else?" With a shiver, she tightened her grip on his hair. He didn't care if she made him bald, as long as she didn't let go. "That you know my sweet spots." "You're one big, sweet spot.

Apparently it'd been too long since her last social orgasm...