Pleasure Quotes
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.Jane Austen, Emma
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.Henry David Thoreau
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.Earl of Chesterfield
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.Yiddish Prove
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Gagehot
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.John Donne
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
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
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
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.Tyron Edwards
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.Bertrand Russell
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
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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
A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.C. S. Lewis
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.Wystan Hugh Auden
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.Gandhi
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.Marquis de Sade
Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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.
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.William Faulkne
The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.Charles Buxton
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
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.Bertrand Russell
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
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
For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.Oscar Wilde
