Pleasure Quotes
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.Soren Kierkegaard
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.Charles Buxton
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.Marquis de Sade
My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - My dearest pleasure when free.Mary Shelley
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Bette Davis
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.Alfred Mercie
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
Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.I Ching
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
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
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
The Puritan hated bear - Baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.Thomas Babington Macaulay
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
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
One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.Jane Austen
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 pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.Francis Bacon
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
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
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
Even pleasure itself is a toil.Manilius
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.Oscar Wilde
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
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
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.Marquis de Sade
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.Mary Wilson Little
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness.Charles Robert Darwin
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.Horace, Epistles
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
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.
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
Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.W. Somerset Maugham
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
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
Beware of over - Great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.Margaret Fulle
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
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.Josh Billings
