Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Pleasure

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Bataille, Georges

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

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonnard, Pierre

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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

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

Moliere

10.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Drabble, Margaret

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Voltaire

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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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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Loos, Anita

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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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

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

Aristotle

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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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

Epictetus

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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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

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lewis, C. S.

44.

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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Balzac, Honore De