Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Lucretius

Best Quotes about Pleasure

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

Bible

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Little, Mary

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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

Drabble, Margaret

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

Aristotle

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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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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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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 everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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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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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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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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

Epictetus

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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

Seneca

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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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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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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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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Moliere

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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