Pleasure Quotes
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
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
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
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
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
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.Henry David Thoreau
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.Thomas Jefferson
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.Auguste Rodin
Even pleasure itself is a toil.Manilius
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
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
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.Aristotle
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.George Sheehan
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
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
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
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.Samuel Johnson
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.Soren Kierkegaard
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.Charles Fox
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.Samuel Johnson
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.Jeremy Taylo
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.Charles Buxton
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.Seneca
I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.Robert Louis Stephenson
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.Henry David Thoreau
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.Lord Chesterfield
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
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 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
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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
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
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.Michael Korda
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
