Quotes about Pleasure

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

She felt that she enjoyed it [horseback riding] in a pagan, sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.

To think with pleasure of his niece's husband having a large ecclesiastical income was one thing—to make a Liberal speech was another thing; and it is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures.

God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

What is written without effort in general is read without pleasure.