Pleasure Quotes

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

John Donne

Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.

W. Somerset Maugham

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Michael Faraday

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau

For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Ovid

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 best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.

Edward Clarke

Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Albert Einstein

Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible, Old Testament

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

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Gandhi

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Gagehot

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Mary Wilson Little

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

Marquis de Sade

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

Lord Chesterfield

One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

Kin Hubbard

Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok

Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

Evelyn Waugh

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

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 everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness.

Charles Robert Darwin

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.

Auguste Rodin

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

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Jean de La Fontaine

Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Henry David Thoreau