Pleasure Quotes
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
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.John D. Rockefelle
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.Benjamin Franklin
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 person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.Author Unknown
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.Aristotle
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.Madame de Lambert
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
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
Beware of over - Great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.Margaret Fulle
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.John Donne
Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.W. Somerset Maugham
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.Kahlil Gibran
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
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.John Steinbeck
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.Gandhi
For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.Paul Wiene
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.William Faulkne
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.Samuel Butle
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
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.George Sheehan
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.Lord Chesterfield
Even pleasure itself is a toil.Manilius
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
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Bagehot
