1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

Although he takes pleasure in seeing her look good, he feels a special sympathy with her when she looks ill or her skin is bad, like when someone who’s usually very good at sports has a poor game. It makes her seem nicer somehow.

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

...there are so many pleasurable topics to discuss besides other people.

Some things are worth the wait. A little suspense heightens the pleasure.

You can imagine or pretend to know your partner, but you will still be surprised at the end of the day.

You will only look for past events when the present is unsatisfactory. The secret to enjoying the present moment is to make it more satisfying than the past. Go beyond the limits.

You can only understand the uselessness of money if you find yourself in a desert with a handful of a bag of money. You will starve to death.

Without women there is no party and celebration. This is when all the fun begins. They are partying animals by nature.