Pleasure Quotes - Page 13

• The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Mental Health, Proportion

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”

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• Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Innocence, Enjoyment

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.191, Penguin

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• To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

  Mark Twain

  Justice, Ecstasy, Commonplace

  The Innocents Abroad ch. 26 (1869)

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• Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

  Jean Paul

  Giving, Literature, Mere

  Jean Paul F. Richter (1880). “Levana; or, The doctrine of education, tr. [by A.H.]. Preceded by a short biogr. of the author [condensed from that of E. Förster] and his autobiography, a fragment”

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• You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Birthday, Witty

  "Fictional character: Pearl". "Interiors", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

  Mark Nepo

  Keys, Knowing, Joy

  Mark Nepo (2012). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want By Being Present in the Life You Have”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Art, Vision, World

  Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Success, Motivation

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• Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

  Pope Paul VI

  Opportunity, Joy, Difficulty

  Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  Pablo Picasso

  Happiness, Hate, Artist

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• Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

  Quintilian

  Desire, Forbidden Fruit, Forbidden

  "Declamationes". Book by Quintilian,

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• A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

  Jean Racine

  Sadness, Blood, Feeling Sad

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• Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Desire, Philosopher

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• Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Men, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.26, 谷月社

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• Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Pride, Men

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• Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Self, Ideas

  "Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Part III : On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions, Prop. 51: Note, 1677.

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• She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Sarcastic, Good Friend, Fishing

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• I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. ...both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

  Mick Taylor

  Friends, Eric, Becoming

  Log for The Artist Shop IRC Chat with Mick Taylor Sunday, www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.

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• It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

  Voltaire

  Angel, Air, Void

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.2868, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Pain, Choices, Sometimes

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Criticism, Fine Things, Criticize

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• Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

  Victor Hugo

  Sad, Being Sad, Melancholy

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5393, Delphi Classics

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• The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Pain, History, Religion

  "History of England". Volume I, Chapter II, 1849-1861.

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• Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.

  Tommy Henrich

  Baseball, Knowing, Balls

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• He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Appreciation, Action, Contemplating

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