Quotes About Pleasure

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.