Pleasure Quotes
My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - My dearest pleasure when free.Mary Shelley
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
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
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.Chinese Prove
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.Clarence Darrow, Medley
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.Jeremy Taylo
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.John Donne
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.Henry David Thoreau
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.Ovid
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.Samuel Johnson
The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.Edward Clarke
For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.Joseph Addison
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
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.Madonna
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
Beware of over - Great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.Margaret Fulle
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.Jean de La Fontaine
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
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
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.Samuel Johnson
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
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
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)
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
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.
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.Evelyn Waugh
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
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.Aristotle
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.George Frost Kennan
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.Kenko Yoshida
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.Thomas Jefferson
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 pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.Lord Chesterfield
