pleasure quotes

• Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both. (Robert Burton) [sin/pleasure/willpower/excuse]
• No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. (Thomas Hardy) [profit/pleasure]
• You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted. (Thomas Hardy) [take/pleasure/life/sorrow]
• Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy. (William Blake) [men/pleasure/intellect/fool]
• Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy. (William Blake) [men/pleasure/intellect/fool]
• We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have, Our doubt is our passion, And our passion is our task, The rest is the madness of art. (Henry James) [give/pleasure/pleasure/rest]
• Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. (Barbra Streisand) [men/pleasure/feeling]
• It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [pleasure/wounds]
• Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. (Mark Twain) [animals/pain/pleasure]
• The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. (William Wordsworth) [pleasure/knowledge/human/society]
• Often have I sighed to measure
  By myself a lonely pleasure,
  Sighed to think, I read a book
  Only read, perhaps, by me. (William Wordsworth) [measure/pleasure/think]
• One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. (Joseph Addison) [take/care/pleasure/life]
• Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. (Joseph Addison) [pleasure]
• To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. (Joseph Addison) [pleasure/moment]
• Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend. ( Akhenaton) [pleasure]
• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ( Aristotle) [pleasure/perfection]
• The law is reason, free from passion. ( Aristotle) [right/pleasure]
• The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ( Aristotle) [pleasure/pain]
• It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy. ( Aristotle) [pleasure/right/right/right]
• It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below. (Francis Bacon) [pleasure/pleasure/pleasure/truth]
• Ask with urgency and passion. (Arthur James Balfour) [urgency/pleasure]
• Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. (Roland Barthes) [pleasure/truth/death/civilization & progress]
• I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. (Roland Barthes) [think/creation/pleasure]
• Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. (Georges Bataille) [pleasure/happiness]
• Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. (Jean Baudrillard) [language/pleasure]
• We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities -- courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning -- whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage. (Jean Baudrillard) [pleasure/being/women/courage]
• It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. (Arnold Bennett) [experience/pleasure/pain/reach]
• The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited. (Arnold Bennett) [question/pleasure/right/right]
• Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy. (William Blake) [men/pleasure/intellect/fool]
• Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them. ( Napoleon I) [pleasure/character/acts]
• Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. (Pierre Bonnard) [pleasure/pleasure/pleasure/strongly]

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