Quotes about Pleasure
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- Oscar Wilde
Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
- Oscar Wilde
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
- Oscar Wilde
I am still tempted to assess the "good" of a day by whether it pleased me versus whether I pleased God and was loving toward others.
- Paul David Tripp
Only when the greatest pleasure in your life is the knowledge that God is pleased by the way you are living can you handle pleasure properly.
- Paul David Tripp
Because we live for our happiness, happiness always eludes us—???because every fulfilled desire is followed by yet another desire.
- Paul David Tripp
In all these warnings against pleasure, truth is mixed with untruth. Insofar as they strengthen our responsibility, they are true; insofar as they undercut our joy, they are wrong.
- Paul Tillich
So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
- Genesis 18:12
He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
- Job 20:17
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; hurry, O LORD, to help me.
- Psalm 40:13
For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
- Psalm 51:16
In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
- Psalm 51:18