Pleasure Quotes

Marquis de sade - sexual pleasure is, i agree, a passion to which...
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
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
Michael Korda
Euripides - short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings....
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
Juvenal
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.
Sol Hurok
Pleasure is a by - Product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
A. Lawrence Lowell
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid
Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.
W. Somerset Maugham
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
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
The Puritan hated bear - Baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
Cicero
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
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
Horace, Epistles
All pleasures contain an element of sadness.
Jonathan Eibeschutz
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
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.
Seneca
Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.
Yiddish Prove
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky
The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Even pleasure itself is a toil.
Manilius
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
George Sheehan
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.
William Faulkne
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.
Francis Quarles
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
Kahlil Gibran
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean de La Fontaine
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Lord Chesterfield
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca
A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
C. S. Lewis
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
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu