Pleasure Quotes
Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.William Shakespeare
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.Jeremy Taylo
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.Samuel Johnson
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.Soren Kierkegaard
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.Evelyn Waugh
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.William Faulkne
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis
As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.Wystan Hugh Auden
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
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.John Steinbeck
Beware of over - Great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.Margaret Fulle
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.Voltaire
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.Henry David Thoreau
Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.Dean Koontz, Watchers
Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.Portuguese Prove
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
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
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
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams
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
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.Marquis de Sade
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
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.Charles Fox
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.Author Unknown
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
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
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.Samuel Johnson
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.Oliver Wendell Holmes
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?Oscar Wilde
