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Quotes About Pleasure

When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
~ Aasif Mandvi
Paradise is the time of suspended pleasure. It is also the place of perpetual erection and orgasm that lasts for twenty-four years. If earthly orgasm gives some foretaste of paradise, one must admit that life in paradise is an infinite, eternal orgasm.
~ Abdelwahab Bouhdiba
the sweetness of life is sure in only two things: love and sugar. If you don't get enough of the first, have more of the second!
~ Abraham Verghese
One of the hallmarks of our tendency to sin is that we feel the need to criticize, we take pleasure in gossiping, and we feel qualified to make judgments, often with very little information.
~ Adam Hamilton
A little season of love and laughter,Of light and life, and pleasure and pain,And a horror of outer darkness after,And dust returneth to dust again.
~ Adam Lindsay Gordon
In Freud's story our possibilities for satisfaction depend upon our capacity for frustration; if we can't let ourselves feel our frustration – and, surprisingly, this is a surprisingly difficult thing to do – we can't get a sense of what it is we might be wanting, and missing, of what might really give us pleasure.
~ Adam Phillips
In place of a youth that was formerly raised on pleasure, today a youth is growing up who will be raised on forbearance and sacrifice, and above all raised to breed a healthy, robust body, for as you know, we believe that without such a body, even a healthy spirit cannot rule the nation for any length of time. Speech, September 11, 1937
~ Adolf Hitler
Good Lord, you would lead angels down a sinful path and they would follow joyously.
~ Adrienne Basso
Shopping is better than sex. If you're not satisfied after shopping you can make an exchange for something you really like.
~ Adrienne Gusoff
we begin to discover the erotic in female terms: as that which is unconfined to any single part of the body or solely to the body itself.
~ Adrienne Rich
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
~ Denis Diderot
Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
~ Marquis de Sade
The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.
~ Robert Crumb
I am not someone who ever feels bad about eating a big bowl of pasta for dinner.
~ Chris Morocco
I'm the fussiest eater on earth; my husband despairs. I like chicken and pasta, and can't resist milk chocolate. I figure if you're going to do something naughty, make it really enjoyable.
~ Bonnie Langford
I've never deprived myself of anything. I've always thought if you need to lose weight, carry on eating what you like, just eat less. I don't agree with doing without pasta or bread; it's too harsh.
~ Donna Air
When I feel like the day is great? Pasta. When I feel like I want the day to be great? Pasta. It's just awesome.
~ Jennifer Hyman
I genuinely enjoy the process of making colourful, delicious food. But I do allow myself an occasional piece of chocolate - today I had a pastry. If I fancy something, I'll have it.
~ Victoria Pendleton
When you eat mindfully, by paying attention to what you eat, you get more pleasure with fewer calories.
~ Dean Ornish
I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.
~ Chris Gabrieli
Every day is a great day when you have a brand new Marlen pen.
~ Jim Watkins
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
~ Samuel Butler
If you're at a restaurant and someone asks, 'Fresh pepper?,' the answer is yes. When people shake off the fresh pepper, they clearly have no interest in living a full life. Same thing goes for grated Parmesan. Why would you turn that down?
~ Timothy Olyphant
Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.
~ Francis Spufford