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Pleasure

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
- Clinton, De Witt
Pleasure Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Pleasure

1.
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

2.
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
Bonnard, Pierre

3.
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
Charron, Pierre

4.
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
Clinton, De Witt

5.
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.
Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

6.
So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.
Seneca

7.
Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.
Byron, Lord

8.
Work is often the father of pleasure.
Voltaire

9.
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
Butler, Samuel

10.
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
Branden, Nathaniel

11.
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Huxley, Aldous

12.
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
Lucretius

13.
A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Young

14.
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
Goldsmith, Oliver

15.
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Voltaire

16.
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
Einstein, Albert

17.
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
Donne, John

18.
People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
Proust, Marcel

19.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Wilde, Oscar

20.
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.
Keats, John

21.
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
Antrim, Minna

22.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Edison, Thomas A.

23.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.
He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

25.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]
Bible

26.
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Loos, Anita

27.
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
Bennett, Arnold

28.
Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.
Selden, John

29.
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
Pascal, Blaise

30.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Johnson, Samuel

31.
When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
Proverb, American

32.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
Buxton, Charles

33.
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
Barthes, Roland

34.
Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
Proverb

35.
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
Warner, Marina

36.
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
Vaneigem, Raoul

37.
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
Chesterfield, Lord

38.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Bagehot, Walter

39.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Bataille, Georges

40.
Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
Hitchcock, Raymond

41.
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Moliere

42.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
Billings, Josh

43.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Balzac, Honore De

44.
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
Lucretius

45.
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Addison, Joseph

46.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
Mencken, H. L.

47.
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
Buffett, Warren

48.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle

49.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Cicero, Marcus T.

50.
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato


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