Pleasure Quotes

John steinbeck, east of eden - when a man comes to die, no matter what his...
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
Cicero
Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.
Yiddish Prove
Bette davis - pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love...
I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
Marquis de Sade
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
Frank Moore Colby
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.
Seneca
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
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
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
Marquis de Sade
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Alfred Mercie
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.
Edward Clarke
The pleasure of love is in loving.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
Lord Chesterfield
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
Norman R. Augustine
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
Jane Austen
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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
One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
Juvenal
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
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
Aristotle
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D. Rockefelle
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
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
I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.
Robert Louis Stephenson
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
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
Desiderius Erasmus
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
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Gagehot