Pleasure Quotes

Kahlil gibran - the giving and receiving of pleasure is a need...
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Horace, epistles - he wins every hand who mingles profit with...
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
Jeremy Taylo
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
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
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
I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
Norman R. Augustine
One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
Charles Fox
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
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
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
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
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
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
Francis Bacon
I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.
Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde
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
Our pleasures were simple - They included survival.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
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
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
Juvenal
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca
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
When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable.
Paul De Gondi
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The Puritan hated bear - Baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
George Gordon Byron
A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
C. S. Lewis
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.
I Ching
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, Old Testament
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
Cicero
All pleasures contain an element of sadness.
Jonathan Eibeschutz
Even pleasure itself is a toil.
Manilius
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.
Robinson Jeffers
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
Marquis de Sade