Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

- Hitchcock, Raymond

Best Quotes about Pleasure

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bible

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Charron, Pierre

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

Seneca

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

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Little, Mary

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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us -- of becoming happy -- is not attainable: yet we may not -- nay, cannot -- give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Freud, Sigmund

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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Bagehot, Walter

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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Drabble, Margaret

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

Voltaire

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God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Aristotle

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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lucretius

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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Billings, Josh

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Bataille, Georges

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Bonnard, Pierre

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Epictetus

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

Devi, Sri Sarada

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Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Proverb, Chinese