Pleasure Quotes
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.Bertrand Russell
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.Henry David Thoreau
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.Marquis de Sade
One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.Jane Austen
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
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.Cicero
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.Swami Brahnmananda
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.Frederick The Great
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.Gandhi
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.Samuel Butle
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.Charles Fox
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
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
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.Jean de La Fontaine
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - - For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.S? ren Kierkegaard
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.Albert Eintein, World As I See It, 1934 - Referring to the military system
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.Mary Wilson Little
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.Elbert Hubbard
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
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.Francis Quarles
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.Abraham Lincoln
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.Madonna
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.Henry David Thoreau
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.Francis Quarles
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.Elias Canetti
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
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.Samuel Johnson
Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.Philip Dormer Stanhope 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
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
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
My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - My dearest pleasure when free.Mary Shelley
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.Joseph Addison
