Pleasure Quotes

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

Maya Angelou

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

Juvenal

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Krishna is a name of the Supreme. It means "all- attractive." Anything that might attract you has its source in the Supreme. Therefore the Supreme is also known as Rama (rhymes with "drama"). "Rama" means "the highest eternal pleasure.

Unknown

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

Soren Kierkegaard

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Germaine Greer

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

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

William James

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

William Congreve

... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Dr. Carl Sagan

The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things

Jean de la Bruyere

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

Marcel Achard

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Aristotle

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god.

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)