Pleasure Quotes
Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.Euripides
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
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
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.Michel de Montaigne
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.Marquis de Sade
The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.Russell Bake
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
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.Michael Korda
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.John Steinbeck
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.Oscar Wilde
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.Josh Billings
Even pleasure itself is a toil.Manilius
Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.Portuguese Prove
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.Robinson Jeffers
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
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
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.Juvenal
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.Lord Chesterfield
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.Henry David Thoreau
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.Seneca
But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.Paul Wiene
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
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.Horace, Epistles
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
