Pleasure Quotes
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.Kahlil Gibran
All pleasures contain an element of sadness.Jonathan Eibeschutz
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery.Maxim Gorky
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.George Eliot
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.Oscar Wilde
In the lexicon of the political class, the word sacrifice means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.George Will, Newsweek, 2/22/93
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
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.Henry David Thoreau
Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.W. Somerset Maugham
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
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.Charles Buxton
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.Bertrand Russell
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.Evelyn Waugh
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.Henry David Thoreau
Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.Portuguese Prove
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.Marquis de Sade
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.Elbert Hubbard
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.Charles Baudelaire
There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.Joe Keenan
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.Samuel Butle
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.John Dryden
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.Cicero
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.Lyste
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.Benjamin Franklin
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.Jeremy Taylo
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.Voltaire
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.Lord Chesterfield
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?Oscar Wilde
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.I Ching
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.Lord Chesterfield
Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.Yiddish Prove
