Pleasure Quotes
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.Mary Wilson Little
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.Josh Billings
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003
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
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.George Eliot
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Gagehot
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.Mary Wilson Little
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.Charles Baudelaire
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.Soren Kierkegaard
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.Evelyn Waugh
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.Horace, Epistles
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.Henry David Thoreau
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.Victor Hugo
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
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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
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
Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.Yiddish Prove
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.
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
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.Cicero
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.Oscar Wilde
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
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.Bertrand Russell
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
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
The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?Oscar Wilde
