Pleasure Quotes (813 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Ravi Zacharias
„Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again.“
― Ravi Zacharias ―
Picture of quotation author Henny Youngman
„Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.“
― Henny Youngman ―
Picture of quotation author Edward Young
„A man of pleasure is a man of pains.“
― Edward Young ―
Picture of quotation author Burt Young
„I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.“
― Burt Young ―
Picture of quotation author Kenko Yoshida
„To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.“
― Kenko Yoshida ―
Picture of quotation author Peter York
„One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.“
― Peter York ―
Picture of quotation author Peter York
„For me, wearing a tie is a pleasure, a recherche one but a pleasure nonetheless. You could say that I'm avoiding tie avoidance. My own gorgeous collection runs into hundreds and I buy them the way I buy books - I simply can't pass a shop. I have loved them since I could spend my own money on them.“
― Peter York ―
Picture of quotation author Peter York
„There was a time when formal clothes were one of life's great pleasures, as well as a way of describing instantly a man's status wealth. Toffs wore the most, the proles the least. Fast forward to 2008 and clothes are still an unrivalled pleasure but some men - and this includes many of our betters - have confused status with fake informality.“
― Peter York ―
Picture of quotation author William Butler Yeats
„Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.“
Picture of quotation author Brock Yates
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Yanni
„And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.“
― Yanni ―
Picture of quotation author Yanni
„Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.“
― Yanni ―
Picture of quotation author Xenophon
„He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.“
― Xenophon ―
Picture of quotation author William Wycherley
„Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.“
Picture of quotation author William Wycherley
„Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.“
Picture of quotation author Chauncey Wright
„The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.“
― Chauncey Wright ―
Picture of quotation author John Woolman
„I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.“
― John Woolman ―
Picture of quotation author John Woolman
„When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.“
― John Woolman ―
Picture of quotation author Virginia Woolf
„If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?“
― Virginia Woolf ―
Picture of quotation author Anna Wintour
„Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature those who define the culture at any given moment, who stir things up, whose presence in the world shapes the way it looks and influences the way we see it.“
― Anna Wintour ―

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