Pleasure Quotes

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

George Sheehan

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

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

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

C. S. Lewis

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Samuel Johnson

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

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

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Mary Wilson Little

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 people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell

I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

Marquis de Sade

Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.

Yiddish Prove

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Lord Chesterfield

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Aristotle

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok

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

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

Marquis de Sade

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.

Edward Clarke

Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.

I Ching

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness.

Charles Robert Darwin

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Maxim Gorky

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

Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.

William Faulkne