Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Pleasure

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Epictetus

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

Aristotle

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

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Billings, Josh

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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

11.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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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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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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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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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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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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

Bible

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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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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

Voltaire

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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

Balzac, Honore De

39.

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

Moliere

40.

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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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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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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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

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

Loos, Anita

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

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