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Quotes About Pleasure

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Exista de cand lumea o categorie de oropsitori ai vietii, fanatici care interzic fericirea, osandesc placerea, detesta rasul si persecuta inteligenta. Ei obtin întotdeauna stima imbecililor si izbutesc recurent sa instaleze o forma sau alta de teroare.
~ Alexandru Paleologu
Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theory of this sort proves correct, it is a true moment for celebration.
~ Alexei Panshin
Happiness knows no guilt
~ Alexios Zavras
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
As a rule, the point of homework generally isn't to learn, much less to derive real pleasure from learning. It's something to be finished. And until it is, it looms large in conversations, an unwelcome guest at the table every night.
~ Alfie Kohn
The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.
~ Alfred Bester
Non ; cette fois j'ai gagé que je t'emmènerais ; allons, viens, mauvaise tête, et ne trouble le plaisir de personne. Chacun son tour ; c'était hier le tien, aujourd'hui tu es passé de mode ; celui qui ne sait pas se conformer à son sort est aussi fou qu'un vieillard qui fait le jeune homme.
~ Alfred de Musset
Qu'importe le flacon, pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse ?
~ Alfred de Musset
Io non conto i giorni - diceva - ma i piaceri".
~ Alfred de Musset
If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
I eat everything. I love it! I couldn't deny myself food. What a waste of a life.
~ Kelly Brook
A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.
~ Tyler Cowen
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
~ John Lennon
I don't really need a personal trainer or watch what I eat. I can't start the day without a hot chocolate or finish it without a few squares of dark chocolate. It's good for my mood!
~ Blake Lively
My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.
~ Jane Elliot
I don't think anyone enjoyed it. Apart from the people who watched it.
~ Alan Hansen
There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
~ B. J. Novak
I like to watch films with my wife and friends. That's how films should be watched. Only then can you enjoy the movies. Then whether it is raunchy or not, hardly matters.
~ Riteish Deshmukh
Just watching my cats can make me happy.
~ Paula Cole
You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that have been created in the history of humanity. But that's too passive.
~ Steven Strogatz
Guilty pleasure implies that it's something that I feel guilty for watching... people tell me I should feel guilty for watching because I'm too old to watch it, but I don't give a damn: I love everything on Cartoon Network from 'Adventure Time' to 'The Adventures of Gumball', 'Teen Titans'... all those shows that are for my kids, I like those!
~ Ne-Yo
I love watching people enjoying food. It's very relaxing for me to cook.
~ Cara Buono
How you eat is as important as what you eat. If I eat mindlessly while watching television, I get all of the calories and none of the pleasure. Instead, if I eat mindfully, paying attention and savoring what I'm eating, smaller portions of food can be exquisitely satisfying.
~ Dean Ornish