Pleasure Quotes

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
Camille Claudel

Character, Greatest, Everyone

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
Groucho Marx

Woman, Smoke, Cigar

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire

God, Nothing, Drinking

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie

Art, Giving, Essence

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H. L. Mencken

Love, Women, Men

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
Zora Neale Hurston

Angry, Sometimes, Against

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Martin Luther

God, Pride, Riches

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

Before, Soul, Idea

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Aldous Huxley

Pain, Laughter, Human

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Voltaire

God, Whether, Known

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Walt Disney

Story, Bring, Animation

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

Morning, Experience, Again

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Voltaire

Necessary, Mankind, Instrument

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

Success, Work, Greatest

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard

Men, Past, Haste

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Modern, Speed, Genuinely

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Seems, Modern, Speed

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
Donald Trump

Work, Trying, Balance

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

Christmas, Moving, Between

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Freedom, True, Liberty

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
Marquis de Sade

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
Hillary Clinton

Great, Brain, Try

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo

Thought, Labor, Intellect

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

Success, Work, Money

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Alan Watts

Pain, Cannot, Sensitive

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Bierce

Person, Himself, Weak

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Pain, End, Through

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
Andrew Jackson

Fun, Nothing, Lots

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Others, Faults, Noticing

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