Pleasure Quotes

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

Cicero

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

Charles Buxton

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

Jonathan Eibeschutz

I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.

Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League

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

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

Our pleasures were simple - They included survival.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

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 secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3

Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

George Gordon Byron

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo

When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.

Shakti Gawain

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen, Emma

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

William Butler Yeats

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

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

Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.

Yiddish Prove

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne

There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.

Madame de Lambert

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. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

C. C. Colton

Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

Evelyn Waugh

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

Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.

Desiderius Erasmus

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

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

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

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Soren Kierkegaard

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.

Clarence Darrow, Medley

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Author Unknown

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

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