Pleasure Quotes (1970 Quotes)

A creature's pleasures are extravagant and luxurious sunk in lust and looking for pleasure, men undergo (again and again) birth and decay.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

During our short sojourn here we are constantly changing. There is no such a thing as remaining always the same in any particular element. Our thoughts change. Our actions are not the same today as they were yesterday. We are constantly gathering new ideas, either bettering our lives, or making ourselves more unhappy. Collecting the beauties and sweets of this life is like gathering favorite roses from among the tangled briars. We pay dearly for the pleasure of having them. Yet we are told that this is but a 'preparatory school,' and the lessons we learn here are to make us more competent to enter into the higher departments of heaven. Let us strive on.

For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living

Follow not after vanity, nor after the enjoyment of love and lust

Where he grew up, they're shocked anyone could dance for a living, because it's for pleasure. It reminds you how lucky you are, ... I knew I had to get away. I have that in my nature the need to keep moving.

If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

And among men is he who sells himself to seek the pleasure of Allah and Allah is Affectionate to the servants.

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an edcuated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is to be educated.

This festival is our way of saying that there are few more rewarding ways to spend time with children than to help them discover the wonders of books and to start them on a journey of pleasure and learning that will last a lifetime.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

Nor love, nor honour, wealth nor power, Can give the heart a cheerful hour When health is lost, be timely wise With health all taste of pleasure flies.

I'm not satisfied, by any shape of the imagination. In this business, you have to win football games. If I have a legacy in this game, I'd like it to be said, 'He was a winning head football coach.' Then maybe I can put a feather in my cap.

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable first, restlessness. The second symptom(when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death) absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death.

My real pleasure is that 4 times a week 1,800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who died hundreds of years ago.

Whether we won or lost, it's only Game 1. We know we have to play better if want to win Game 2. It's not the time to either panic or be satisfied.

I dont know of anybody who would tell you in that committee, that they were satisfied with the responses. So I would describe myself as unsatisfied, and I have to be satisfied before Ill vote for anybody, Republican or Democrat.

Just because we are curious does not mean that our curiosity should be satisfied. You have no obligation to tell us how you will rule on any issue that might come before you if you sit on the Supreme Court.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential for the eye which, everyoung and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints possibility never.

When it's taken away from you like it was him, the feeling you have for the game grows a little bit inside you. You find out what it means to you, and that your tranquility, and your most enjoyment is between those lines.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.

The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience there is no theater. Every technique learned by the actor, every curtain, every flat on the stage, every careful analysis by the director, every coordinated scene, is for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, our evaluators, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.

Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.

As long as the recreation department is satisfied, and the needs are met, that's fine with me. I understand the developer not wanting to put public recreation areas on a private site.

The items are expensive in the amusement center, possibly blocking out its target consumers teenagers and travelers.

What avails love when life is so ephemeralWhat avaiIs a mortals love for the immortalLove that is snuffed out by deaths passing blastLove without the pain, the passion that consumesA flickering spark I am, aglow for a fleeting glanceFlow vain for a flickering spark to chase an eternal flameGrant me the bliss of eternal life, O Lord,And mine will be the ecstasy of eternal love.Give me the pleasure of an everlasting painAn agony that lacerates my soul for ever.

You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around personality you must have interest outside of your regular vocation that will serve to balance your business responsibilities.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstacies cheap and trivial.

How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere

People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forcewe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval notion that there is an aristocracy and a people, and the people want a piece of what the aristocracy hada life subsidized enough to have a minimum of work and a maximum of pleasure.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.

Pleasure soon exhausts us and itself also But endeavor never does.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Away with old Romance Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts Away with love-verses, sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide The unhealthy pleasures, ex

It's a legitimate question, ... What I sell is an entire system. (Teams) can bring their whole staff, including middle school. I guarantee their money back if they're not satisfied.

He sizzled me up with his slice and spins. It was a pleasure to play against him.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

We are sharing this country together. If somebody wants to take all the loaf, then nothing will be left for others. It is not possible for everyone to be satisfied.

There are people who have an appetite for grief pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain.