Pleasure Quotes - Page 24

• Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Perfect, Peaceful, Feelings

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• Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.

  Vernon Lee

  Civilization, Barbarians, Use

  Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life”

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• When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.

  Myrtle Reed

  Beautiful, Eye, Dark

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• Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

  Myrtle Reed

  Mean, Destiny, Men

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try to be silent; for a book is meant to give pleasure, and pain that is inflicted in black and white lasts for ever.

  Isabel Burton

  Pain, Book, Black And White

  Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.3

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• No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and think ourselves happy and satisfied; but afterward, when the froth and foam have subsided, we discover that the goblet is not more than half-filled with the golden liquid that was poured into it.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Heart, Ambition, Thinking

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Memories, Might, Privilege

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• Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil.
  Is not true leisure one with true toil?

  John Sullivan Dwight

  Sweet, Toil, Leisure

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• We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Add

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

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Recreation

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

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

  Character

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• Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

  Valerie Worth

  Feelings, Important, Mud Puddles

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• I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.

  Bernard Rudofsky

  Art, Believe, Intellectual

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