Pleasure Quotes

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.
Saint Augustine
Francois marie arouet voltaire - nothing would be more tiresome than eating and...
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
Charles caleb colton - we may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would...
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine Mansfield
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
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
I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.
Robert Louis Stephenson
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
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
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
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
Charles Buxton
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
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.
Robinson Jeffers
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.
William Faulkne
Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003
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
Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...
Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - My dearest pleasure when free.
Mary Shelley
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
Our pleasures were simple - They included survival.
Dwight D Eisenhowe