Pleasure Quotes
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.Marquis de Sade
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
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.John D. Rockefelle
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.George Sheehan
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.Alfred Mercie
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.Marquis de Sade
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
As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.Wystan Hugh Auden
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.John Dryden
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.Josh Billings
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.Russell Bake
A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.Percy Bysshe Shelley
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.Marquis de Sade
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
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
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.Charles Caleb Colton
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
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.Abraham Lincoln
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.Norman R. Augustine
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.Marquis de Sade
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.Jane Austen
When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable.Paul De Gondi
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.William Faulkne
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Bette Davis
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.Hermann Hesse
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.Elbert Hubbard
You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.Voltaire
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.Oscar Wilde
