Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Voltaire

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Lewis, C. S.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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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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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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

Aristotle

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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Moliere

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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

Seneca

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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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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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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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