Pleasure Quotes

A. lawrence lowell - pleasure is a by - product of doing something...
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
Mary wilson little - there is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the...
I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
Marquis de Sade
Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.
I Ching
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
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, Lacon, 1825
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
Desiderius Erasmus
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
Lord Chesterfield
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D. Rockefelle
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
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
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
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
Marquis de Sade
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Sol Hurok
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats
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
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
Jeremy Taylo
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
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
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Michel de Montaigne
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
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Josh Billings
The pleasure of love is in loving.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.
Joseph Addison
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
George Gordon Byron
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
Beware of over - Great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Margaret Fulle
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca
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
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean de La Fontaine
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
Abraham Lincoln