Pleasure Quotes

One's first book kiss home run is always the best.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.

~ Lord Byron

1. If your stomach disputes you lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 2. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 3. Go very lightly on the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful.

~ Satchel Paige

Love and do what you like.

~ St. Augustine

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

~ Maxwell Perkins

All the things I really like to do are either immoral illegal or fattening.

~ Alexander Woollcott

The physically fit can enjoy their vices.

~ Lloyd Percival

The superfluous is very necessary.

~ Voltaire

There are three ingredients in the good life learning earning and yearning.

~ Christopher Morley

A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment where I long once more for desire.

~ Goethe

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

~ C. S. Lewis

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

~ Juvenal

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

~ Aaron Burr

We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.

~ Alain Wertheimer

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

~ William Wycherley

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

~ Christopher Lambert

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

~ Thomas Fuller

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

~ Euripides

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

~ T. S. Eliot

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

~ B. C. Forbes

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

~ Jeremy Bentham

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

~ Auguste Rodin

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

~ Clarence Darrow

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

~ John Stuart Mill

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

~ Ian K. Smith

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

~ Georges Bataille

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

~ Salvador Dalí

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

~ Bernard Tschumi

Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'

~ Anthony Bourdain

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

~ Bertrand Russell

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.

~ John Stuart Mill

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

~ J. G. Ballard

There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

~ Michael Leunig