Pleasure Quotes

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
C. S. Lewis
Epicurus, from diogenes laertius, lives of eminent philosophers - pleasure is the beginning and the end of living...
Thomas jefferson - do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know...
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Russell Bake
Mohandas karamchand gandhi - the sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of...
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.
Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.
William Shakespeare
The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
La Rochefoucauld
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
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
Charles Fox
The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Lord Chesterfield
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Earl of Chesterfield
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
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden
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
The pleasure of love is in loving.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Charles Baudelaire
All pleasures contain an element of sadness.
Jonathan Eibeschutz
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
Kahlil Gibran
I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.
Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League
I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
Norman R. Augustine
Our pleasures were simple - They included survival.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.
Seneca
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Gagehot
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.
Shakti Gawain
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
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
Henry David Thoreau