Pleasure

Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain.

- John Dryden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's a double pleasure to trick the trickster.

- Jean Fontaine Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Pleasure is oft a visitant but pain Clings cruelly to us.

- John Keats Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Jean Paul Richter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Pleasure is the bait of sin.

- Plato Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.

- I Ching Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Samuel Johnson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

- Brock Yates Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Tim embodies what we value in a mixed-signal designer -- expert level analog design coupled with an equally strong understanding of digital design and signal processing. Tim has consistently led the design of market-leading products and has also been instrumental in product conception. His work ethic, flexibility and willingness to embrace any challenge have set him apart for some time. It is with pleasure that we include this honor to Tim's long list of accomplishments.

- Jeff Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Nothing gives the English more pleasure, in a quiet but determined sort of way, than to do things oddly.

- Bill Bryson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

- E. Housman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure it's my life. So why should I stop If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop

- Gunther Schuller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Abstainer - a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continually. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright.

- Bill Bryson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

- Arthur Conan Doyle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool but we should not become its slaves.

- Douglas Hurd Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

- Lillian Hellman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This pleasure, appears as poison in the beginning but is like nectar in the end, comes by the grace of Self-knowledge.

- Bhagavad-Gita Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

- Ernst Mach Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

- Jalal Rumi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

- Antony Hewish Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

- Mason Cooley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

- Mike Royko Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In the lexicon of the political class, the word sacrifice means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

- George Will Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes