Pleasure Quotes
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
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.Bertrand Russell
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.Marquis de Sade
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.Jean de La Fontaine
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
For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.Michael Faraday
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
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
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.Samuel Butle
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
Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.Gandhi
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.Marquis de Sade
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.Jeremy Taylo
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.John Donne
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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
It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.Sue Grafton
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.Seneca
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.Cicero
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.John D. Rockefelle
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.Samuel Johnson
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.Seneca
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
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.Marquis de Sade
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.Oscar Wilde
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 a by - Product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.A. Lawrence Lowell
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.Evelyn Waugh
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.Joseph Addison
