Pleasure Quotes
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
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery.Maxim Gorky
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
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
The Puritan hated bear - Baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.Thomas Babington Macaulay
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.Seneca
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.Lord Chesterfield
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 pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.Author Unknown
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
My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - My dearest pleasure when free.Mary Shelley
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.Edward Clarke
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.Evelyn Waugh
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.Samuel Johnson
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
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.Marquis de Sade
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.Madonna
I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.Robert Louis Stephenson
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
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.Joseph Addison
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.Alfred Mercie
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
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
Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.John W. Gardne
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.Marquis de Sade
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. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.C. C. Colton
Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.W. Somerset Maugham
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
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
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.Ovid
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.Jane Austen
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.Norman R. Augustine
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
