Pleasure Quotes
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.Bertrand Russell
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.Henry David Thoreau
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.John Dryden
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
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.Samuel Butle
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.Seneca
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
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
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.Portuguese Prove
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.Charles Baudelaire
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
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
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.Victor Hugo
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.Michel de Montaigne
As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.Wystan Hugh Auden
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
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
Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.W. Somerset Maugham
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Gagehot
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.Juvenal
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Variety is the soul of pleasure.Aphra Behn
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
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.Abraham Lincoln
The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.La Rochefoucauld
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.Michael Faraday
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
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
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis
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
