Pleasure Quotes
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 greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.Frederick The Great
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
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
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.Samuel Johnson
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
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)
Beware of over - Great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.Margaret Fulle
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.Alfred Mercie
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.Charles Caleb Colton
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
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.George Frost Kennan
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.Samuel Johnson
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
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.George Eliot
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.John D. Rockefelle
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
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.Russell Bake
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.Marquis de Sade
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.Oscar Wilde
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
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three - Fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little - By - Little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.Wallace Stevens
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.Samuel Johnson
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.John Dryden
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.Charles Buxton
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau
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.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.Clarence Darrow, Medley
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.Aristotle
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.Josh Billings
