Pleasure Quotes
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
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
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.Marquis de Sade
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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
The pleasure of love is in loving.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.I Ching
The Puritan hated bear - Baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.Thomas Babington Macaulay
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.Lyste
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
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.Alfred Mercie
Variety is the soul of pleasure.Aphra Behn
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.Jane Austen, Emma
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.Seneca
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.Victor Hugo
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Gagehot
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.George Eliot
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
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.John D. Rockefelle
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
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
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.Cicero
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
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.Russell Bake
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.Henry David Thoreau
Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.William Shakespeare
Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.Yiddish Prove
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
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
