Pleasure Quotes
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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
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. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.C. C. Colton
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.Michel de Montaigne
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.Henry David Thoreau
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
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
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.Agnes Repplie
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Gagehot
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.Lord Chesterfield
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.Marquis de Sade
The pleasure of love is in loving.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.Marquis de Sade
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
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.Mahatma Gandhi
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
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.Abraham Lincoln
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three - Fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little - By - Little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.Wallace Stevens
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.Samuel Johnson
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
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
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Bagehot
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.I Ching
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.Mary Wilson Little
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.Robinson Jeffers
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
One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.Jane Austen
