Pleasure Quotes

The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

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

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok

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

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

The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

La Rochefoucauld

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

Oscar Wilde

Even pleasure itself is a toil.

Manilius

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Mary Wilson Little

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

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 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

Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

Albert Eintein, World As I See It, 1934 - Referring to the military system

I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.

Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League

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

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen, Emma

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Seneca

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell