Pleasure Quotes - Page 24

• Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Recreation

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• Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of the mind; the source of the truest pleasures, the fountain of the sublimest and most perfect happiness.

  Mary Collyer

  Passion, Order, Perfect

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• In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Summer, Grief, Unique

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• After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?

  William Benton Clulow

  Philosophy, Years, Two

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.413

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• But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable curiosity, and, above all, the pleasure of masterly performance and of the chase. These are the effective forces which move the scientist. The first condition for the progress of science is to bring them into play.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Moving, Science, Play

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• Sexual pleasure is not a sin. Nor is it a sacrament. It is your right as a human being to exercise as you see fit. It's amazing that I feel the need to say this, but, given our times, I do.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Exercise, Needs, Sin

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• One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin, or eat cookies, then doing it. It's a pleasure that can be repeated daily.

  Amanda Filipacchi

  Cookies, Coke, Life Is

  Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Love Creeps: A Novel”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in some measure compensate this loss by the satisfaction I shall find in your writing.

  Heloise

  Writing, Loss, Satisfaction

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• If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart; they have all the fire of our passions, they can raise them as much as if the persons themselves were present; they have all the tenderness and the delicacy of speech, and sometimes a boldness of expression even beyond it.

  Heloise

  Passion, Heart, Fire

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• Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.

  Owen Feltham

  Adversity, Joy, May

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• There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.

  Owen Feltham

  Honesty, Men, Safety

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• Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Cat, Simple, Ice Cream

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Burning Point”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

  Jerry Smith

  Fire, Playing With Fire

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• When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity to serve, that's where all the best business happens.

  Chris Brogan

  Opportunity, People, Support

  "The Freaks shall Inherit the Earth, an interview with Chris Brogan". Interview with Martin Shervington, www.plusyourbusiness.com. May 16, 2014.

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• when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Art, What Matters, Kind

  Marion Dane Bauer (1992). “What's Your Story?: A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Artist, Giving, Present Day

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.215, U of Nebraska Press

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• It has been said that the only reason for leaving England is to give yourself the pleasure of coming back to it.

  Patience Strong

  Giving, Leaving, England

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to act, to create - all of these are inherent in a love of reading.

  Frances Clarke Sayers

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Frances Clarke Sayers, Marjeanne Jensen Blinn (1965). “Summoned by Books: Essays and Speeches by Frances Clarke Sayers”, New York : Viking Press

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• All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?

  Gertrude Bell

  Travel, Sea, People

  Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1894). “Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures”

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• The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.

  Fernand Leger

  Fire, Water, Joy

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• Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.

  Uta Ranke-Heinemann

  Special, Legacy, World

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• I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?

  Karen Hawkins

  Men, Vow, Exaggerating

  Karen Hawkins (2012). “The Taming of a Scottish Princess”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• I get no pleasure from politics; its not in my character.

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

  Character

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• Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

  Havelock Ellis

  May, Finest, Used

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.52, Elsevier

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• Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Book, Literature, Cases

  'Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected' no. 3, in the 'London Magazine' January-July 1823. De Quincey adds that he is indebted for this distinction to 'many years' conversation with Mr Wordsworth'

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