Quotes
Quotes about Pleasure
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy. - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"),
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure! . . . . Endless torments dwell above thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desireâ ... it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreprov'd pleasures free.
I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave, Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf Came I to crouch, as I conceive. Dame Nature doubtless has designed A man the monarch of his mind.
They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. - The Italians, 1964.
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away.
Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.
I'm tired of love, I'm still more tired of rhyme, but money gives me pleasure all the time.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
