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Quotes About Pleasure

The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can't fathom.
~ Unknown
God damn it! Where's my wine?
~ Unknown
Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can't fathom.
~ Unknown
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.
~ Mark Twain
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
~ Mark Twain
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
~ Mark Twain
I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
~ Michelangelo
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
~ Russell Baker
We got everythin' we need here. We got Baileys, creamy, and, um... everythin' good. I'll get ya another Baileys
~ Noel Fielding
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
~ Oscar Wilde
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Sweet cream on an ice cream sandwich!
~ Dwayne Johnson
The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Laughter ispleasant, butthe exertion istoomuchfor me.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I never knew how much I missed pickles and pickle juice. It's like, an overwhelming feeling that I can't even explain.
~ Unknown
Nona needs a very dry martini.
~ Holly Hood, Ink
boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?
~ Unknown
I never knew anyone actually buy cakes when they were hot ...
~ Unknown
Charlotte Huang, Going Geek
~ Unknown
Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and contribute to the realisation of your goal or ideal.
~ Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov