Pleasure Quotes
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.Kahlil Gibran
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
Even pleasure itself is a toil.Manilius
All pleasures contain an element of sadness.Jonathan Eibeschutz
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery.Maxim Gorky
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
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
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.Horace, Epistles
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.Lord Chesterfield
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
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
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.Michael Faraday
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
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
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
I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.Norman R. Augustine
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
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
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.Bertrand Russell
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.Frederick The Great
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.Bertrand Russell
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.Swami Brahnmananda
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.Gandhi
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?Oscar Wilde
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
Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.Percy Bysshe Shelley
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.Elbert Hubbard
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.Albert Einstein
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
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
As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.Wystan Hugh Auden
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.William Faulkne
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.Marquis de Sade
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Bette Davis
