Pleasure Quotes
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
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.John D. Rockefelle
The Puritan hated bear - Baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.Thomas Babington Macaulay
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
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.Oscar Wilde
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.Chinese Prove
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
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.
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.Jane Austen
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
A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.C. S. Lewis
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.Sue Grafton
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.Author Unknown
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.Joseph Addison
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.William Shakespeare
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.Hermann Hesse
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.Samuel Johnson
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.Jean de La Fontaine
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.Clarence Darrow, Medley
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Our pleasures were simple - They included survival.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.Lord Byron
I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.George Sheehan
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.La Rochefoucauld
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.Juvenal
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
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.Oliver Wendell Holmes
