Pleasure Quotes

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
F. scott fitzgerald, tender is the night - sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a...
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
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
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.
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.
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
Francis Bacon
Bible - forsake not an old friend for the new is not...
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.
Kin Hubbard
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.
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.
Saint Augustine
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
The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
Author Unknown
Beware of over - Great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Margaret Fulle
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
Jane Austen
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
In the lexicon of the political class, the word sacrifice means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
George Will, Newsweek, 2/22/93
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
Horace, Epistles
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine Mansfield
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Earl of Chesterfield
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden
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
All pleasures contain an element of sadness.
Jonathan Eibeschutz
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
Norman R. Augustine
When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable.
Paul De Gondi
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
Juvenal
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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)
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen, Emma
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