Pleasure Quotes

AKA: QuotesNSayings.net

Famous Quotes and Sayings

• Authors
• Picture Quotes
• Proverbs
• Professions
• Nationalities
• About
• Contact

Popular Authors

• Vincent van Gogh
• Michael Jackson
• Dalai Lama
• Ronald Reagan
• Angela Merkel
• Madonna
• William Shakespeare
• Socrates
• George W. Bush
• Marie Curie

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 18th June

Births

• 1937 - Gail Godwin
• 1942 - Thabo Mbeki
• 1790 - John Eaton
• 1952 - Isabella Rossellini
• 1965 - Uday Hussein

Deaths

• 1980 - Barnaby Keeney
• 1884 - Matthew Simpson
• 1880 - John Sutter
• 1835 - William Cobbett
• 2010 - Jose Saramago

• The most amazing thing about the pleasure-seekers is how they can be content with so little.

  Shraga Silverstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pleasure

• We are all pleasure-seekers. We differ only in the type of pleasure we seek.

  Shraga Silverstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pleasure

• That is precisely the trouble with sheer pleasure–its sheerness.

  Shraga Silverstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pleasure

• G-d is all for our living off the fat of the land–just not the forbidden fat.

  Shraga Silverstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pleasure

• I’m tired of love; I’m still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Topics in Love, Money

  Tags in Pleasure, Materialism

• Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

  Jane Austen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pleasure, Happiness
• 

  The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

  Jane Austen

  Topics in Humor, Stupid

  Tags in Gentleman, Pleasure, Books
• 

  A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Pleasure, Excellence

• Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It’s probably more Western than U.S. per se.

  David Foster Wallace

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pleasure

• I’m acting for the pleasure of it.

  David Morse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pleasure
• 

  Pleasure may come from illusion but happiness can come only of reality.

  Sebastien Roch

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Pleasure, Illusion, Happiness

• My extravagance is my garden – it’s the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

  Ina Garten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morning, Pleasure

• At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

  Brooke Shields

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pleasure

• Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

  Ian McEwan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greatest, Pleasure

• Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relation, Feeling, Pleasure

• Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Combined, Pleasure

• The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

  Frederick William II

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Greatest, Pleasure

• It’s such a pleasure to work in these movies, it’s almost like it’s not really happening.

  Fred Willard

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Pleasure, Happening

• I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

  Fred Rogers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Story, Child, Pleasure, Favorite

• I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I’ll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y’know, just see where roads lead.

  Black Francis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pleasure