Pleasure Quotes

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Jean de La Fontaine

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

Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

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

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

Horace, Epistles

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

William Butler Yeats

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

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

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

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

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

With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.

Francis Bacon

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.

Robinson Jeffers

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

Samuel Butle

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness.

Charles Robert Darwin

The Puritan hated bear - Baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

Madonna

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

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire

Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.

John Dryden

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Mary Wilson Little

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

George Gordon Byron

Our pleasures were simple - They included survival.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

Charles Buxton

My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - My dearest pleasure when free.

Mary Shelley

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

Marquis de Sade

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

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.

Saint Augustine

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

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

C. S. Lewis

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Michael Faraday

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick The Great