Pleasure Quotes

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Chinese Prove
Charles buxton - to make pleasures pleasant, shorten them....
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Madonna
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
Marquis de Sade
Voltaire - you despise books you whose lives are absorbed in...
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
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
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
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
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Alfred Mercie
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
Kahlil Gibran
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
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
There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.
Joe Keenan
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.
Sol Hurok
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
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine Mansfield
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - - For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
S? ren Kierkegaard
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
Charles Fox
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
John Donne
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)
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.
Seneca
The pleasure of love is in loving.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
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
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden