Pleasure Quotes
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.Michael Korda
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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 happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.George Sheehan
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
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.John Dryden
Variety is the soul of pleasure.Aphra Behn
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
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
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.Samuel Butle
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.Swami Brahnmananda
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.Michael Faraday
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.Robinson Jeffers
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.Lyste
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.Euripides
Even pleasure itself is a toil.Manilius
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.Albert Eintein, World As I See It, 1934 - Referring to the military system
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.Russell Bake
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.Henry David Thoreau
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.Horace, Epistles
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.Victor Hugo
