Pleasure Quotes
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.Sue Grafton
All pleasures contain an element of sadness.Jonathan Eibeschutz
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.Charles Buxton
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.Henry David Thoreau
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.Aristotle
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three - Fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little - By - Little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.Wallace Stevens
Even pleasure itself is a toil.Manilius
Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.Portuguese Prove
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.Author Unknown
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.Abraham Lincoln
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.Earl of Chesterfield
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.Madame de Lambert
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.Agnes Repplie
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.Marquis de Sade
Variety is the soul of pleasure.Aphra Behn
A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.Oscar Wilde
The Puritan hated bear - Baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.Thomas Babington Macaulay
The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.La Rochefoucauld
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.Kenko Yoshida
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.Lord Chesterfield
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.Frank Moore Colby
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.Michel de Montaigne
Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.I Ching
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.Henry David Thoreau
For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.Yiddish Prove
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.Dean Koontz, Watchers
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.Joseph Addison
