Pleasure Quotes
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.Samuel Johnson
Variety is the soul of pleasure.Aphra Behn
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.Joseph Addison
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
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
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.Madonna
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, Old Testament
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams
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
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.Gandhi
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.Lord Chesterfield
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.George Gordon Byron
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.William Faulkne
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.Marquis de Sade
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.Aristotle
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?Oscar Wilde
Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.Evelyn Waugh
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
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.Hermann Hesse
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.Samuel Butle
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.Seneca
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.Lord Byron
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.Juvenal
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.Henry David Thoreau
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
But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.Paul Wiene
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
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.Yiddish Prove
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
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
