Top 1200 Great Pleasure Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Anyone who's never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn't know what pleasure is.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

I want to derive pleasure from this planet and put pleasure back into it.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

If one day God gives me the opportunity to coach Cameroon, it would be a great pleasure.

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Every pleasure you forgoe on Earth is a pleasure you won't get in heaven.

Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

'Himmatwala' was a cult movie that I watched not for great cinematic moments, but for pure guilty pleasure.

Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.

I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over the course of mental processes. If such a dominance existed, the immense majority of our mental processes would have to be accompanied by pleasure or to lead to pleasure, whereas universal experience completely contradicts any such conclusion.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

I will always look back with great pleasure on the time spent in the DFB team.

I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.

Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.

The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.

If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure.

Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

I've seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don't know how or why they do it.