Pleasure Quotes

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

Aaron Burr, Jr.

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

Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Russell Baker

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Aphra Behn

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

Aristotle

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon

Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.

Chester Bennington

Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own heart will know. Pursue the enjoyments which are of good repute; for pleasure attended by honor is the best thing in the world, but pleasure without honor is the worst.

Isocrates

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen

Necessity brings him here, not pleasure.

Durante degli Alighieri

Recommended prayers cannot attain the pleasures of God for you when obligatory prayers are left unattended.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

What a difference is there between a deed whose pleasure passes away leaving behind it the pangs of pain and punishment and the deed whose oppressive harshness comes to an end leaving behind Divine rewards !

Ali bin Abu-Talib

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Even though its dark sometimes or its scary for the people involved, ultimately I always make sure theyre exhilarated by it. Its genuinely a real pleasure to take people to that place.

Derren Victor Brown

The balls, the chutzpah, the gall, nerve and impudence of the successful lie that is huge enough never to be questioned is always a source of immense professional pleasure amongst magicians with any sense of the theatrical.

Derren Victor Brown
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