Pleasure Quotes
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
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
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Gagehot
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Bagehot
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
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
Our pleasures were simple - They included survival.Dwight D Eisenhowe
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.Agnes Repplie
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.Victor Hugo
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
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
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.Dean Koontz, Watchers
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.Henry David Thoreau
Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.Evelyn Waugh
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.Oscar Wilde
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.Francis Bacon
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.Author Unknown
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Bette Davis
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
I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.Norman R. Augustine
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.Michel de Montaigne
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.Kenko Yoshida
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.Thomas Jefferson
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.Bertrand Russell
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
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
The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.Edward Clarke
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.Henry David Thoreau
One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.Jane Austen
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
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
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
My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - My dearest pleasure when free.Mary Shelley
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.Lord Chesterfield
