Pleasure Quotes

One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen
Lord chesterfield - choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not...
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
George Gordon Byron
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
I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.
Robert Louis Stephenson
Pleasure is a by - Product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
A. Lawrence Lowell
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
Kenko yoshida - to sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread...
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
Marquis de Sade
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
Marquis de Sade
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
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Earl of Chesterfield
In the lexicon of the political class, the word sacrifice means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
George Will, Newsweek, 2/22/93
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
The Puritan hated bear - Baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
Jeremy Taylo
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Samuel Johnson
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.
Seneca
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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
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
Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.
W. Somerset Maugham
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean de La Fontaine
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
Samuel Butle
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
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
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein
A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
C. S. Lewis
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
Horace, Epistles
Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.
Portuguese Prove
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.
Swami Brahnmananda
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Aphra Behn