Pleasure Quotes

One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Juvenal

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

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Josh Billings

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

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

Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

Abraham Lincoln

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.

Desiderius Erasmus

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

Jane Austen

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

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire

In the lexicon of the political class, the word sacrifice means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

George Will, Newsweek, 2/22/93

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

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

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

Samuel Butle

Our pleasures were simple - They included survival.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

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

Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League

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

Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.

Portuguese Prove

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

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Oscar Wilde