Pleasure Quotes

Soren kierkegaard - most men pursue pleasure with such breathless...
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.
Dean Koontz, Watchers
Ovid - there is no such thing as pure pleasure; some...
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
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
Jane Austen
The pleasure of love is in loving.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our pleasures were simple - They included survival.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
The Puritan hated bear - Baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
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
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
Charles Buxton
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D. Rockefelle
Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.
William Shakespeare
Pleasure is a by - Product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
A. Lawrence Lowell
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Gagehot
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
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003
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
As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.
Wystan Hugh Auden
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
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
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.
George Frost Kennan
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen, Emma
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
Evelyn Waugh
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 pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
Desiderius Erasmus
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
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
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