Pleasure Quotes

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Aristotle

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

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Albert Einstein

Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.

Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League

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

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Josh Billings

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

George Sheehan

As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.

Wystan Hugh Auden

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Ovid

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.

Desiderius Erasmus

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

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

Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.

I Ching

Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.

Yiddish Prove

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Elbert Hubbard

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

C. S. Lewis

Even pleasure itself is a toil.

Manilius

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Lord Chesterfield

Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.

Portuguese Prove

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

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Madonna

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

Oscar Wilde

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.

William Faulkne

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

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

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003

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

Sol Hurok

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau