Pleasure Quotes

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Joseph Addison

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.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

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

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.

Robinson Jeffers

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

Chinese Prove

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

Oscar Wilde

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.

Benjamin Franklin

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine

Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.

William Shakespeare

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

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...

Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Even pleasure itself is a toil.

Manilius

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

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Gagehot

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Gandhi

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - - For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

S? ren Kierkegaard

There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.

Joe Keenan

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - My dearest pleasure when free.

Mary Shelley