Sentence examples for making pleasure from inspiring English sources

It's long been understood that making pleasure your goal in life will lead to diminishing returns.

"This proposal is just guiding us round and round, making pleasure jaunts, rather than moving toward the peak.

The danger — particularly for a society as rich as ours — is making pleasure the central focus in the pursuit of a happy life.

Among them were The Scotia, a ferry more accustomed to taking passengers from Holyhead to Anglesey, and the Glen Gower, which until the war had idled its way around the Bristol Channel, making pleasure excursions for the tourists of south Wales and north Devon.

As the sciences of mind and brain mature, they will offer new evidence about pleasure and its roles in our and kindred minds and about whether and how these roles may pull apart, perhaps along the line between dopaminergic and opioid systems, making pleasure more than one natural kind.

'Tenants,' preoccupied farming for their 'landlords,' were disinclined to waste time making pleasure gardens.

It makes pleasure a principle.

It will redefine the field to make pleasure appear to be at one with virtue.

Nature's vicissitudes make pleasure brief; Existence is short for each brilliant leaf.

And those who make pleasure their good are in equal perplexity; for they are compelled to admit that there are bad pleasures as well as good.

The last word comes from Epicurus himself on the wall, looking down with approval on the pillow-sized breakfast I have just made: "Pleasure is the greatest good".