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Quotes About Pleasure

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes in the twinkling of an eye, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delights of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed. I shall love you until I die.
~ Voltaire
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
~ Voltaire
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
~ Voltaire
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
~ Voltaire
Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face.
~ Unknown
Lust is less a physical need than a way of forgetting time and death.
~ Unknown
Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
~ W. C. Fields
Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
~ W. C. Fields
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
~ W. H. Auden
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Lady, I know death will come but I avoid it because I can rationally foresee the devastation it will wreak upon my life. Yet after death, I will be beyond this mortal coil, and either in eternal pleasure or damnation. This thing that you do is worse than death, as it will leave me alive and in a perpetual state of agony. You may as well cast me into Hell." She
~ Unknown
Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
~ W.B. Yeats
The sense of smell, which seems to diminish as we grow older, until it becomes something scarcely worthy of being called a sense, is nearly as keen in little children as in the inferior animals, and, when they live with nature, contributes as much to their pleasure as sight or hearing.
~ Unknown
That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.
~ Jean Alesi
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
~ Marquis de Sade
You don't talk dirty to make him hot. You "talk dirty" to communicate what you need. And most guys, if you go, "Yeah, yeah, just like that, a little more to the left, " they'll do it.
~ Nina Hartley
Traveler is my only companion; I may also say my pleasure. He and I, whenever practicable, wander out in the mountains and enjoy sweet confidence.
~ Robert E. Lee
After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.
~ Boy George
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
~ Arnold Palmer
This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased.
~ Susan Sontag
Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.
~ Samuel Johnson
At the end of day, a player needs the confidence of the manager, the support of the fans and to enjoy the game.
~ Unknown
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.
~ Rumi