Pleasure Quotes

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.

Robert Louis Stephenson

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Earl of Chesterfield

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

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

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

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Aristotle

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

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

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

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

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

Charles Buxton

Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

Charles Fox

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Tyron Edwards

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

Francis Bacon

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Author Unknown

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine

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

Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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

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

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

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell

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

Mary Wilson Little

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Soren Kierkegaard

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

George Gordon Byron

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

Mary Wilson Little

Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.

I Ching

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

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

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Seneca

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

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

C. S. Lewis