Pleasure Quotes
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
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.Desiderius Erasmus
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.Aristotle
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.John D. Rockefelle
As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.Wystan Hugh Auden
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.Jane Austen
For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.Auguste Rodin
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.Joseph Addison
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
Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.Jeremy Taylo
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.Abraham Lincoln
Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable to him a new friend is as new wine when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.Bible
Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.Portuguese Prove
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.John Steinbeck
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)
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.Frank Moore Colby
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.Ovid
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.Kin Hubbard
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.Robinson Jeffers
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.Elias Canetti
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.Benjamin Franklin
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.Tyron Edwards
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.Jane Austen, Emma
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.Clarence Darrow, Medley
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.Michael Faraday
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.Chinese Prove
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
There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.Joe Keenan
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
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
