Top Pleasure Quotes
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
Andrew Jackson
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
Eric Liddell
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
Zora Neale Hurston
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin
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If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.
Lydia Lunch 
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I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.
Helen Wills Moody
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Sigmund Freud
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When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.
Willie Mays
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Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.
Hugh Hopper
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I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
Stanley Kubrick
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Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.
Jane Porter
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
Italo Calvino
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