Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

Charron, Pierre

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

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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

Billings, Josh

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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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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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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Selden, John

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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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

Moliere

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

Einstein, Albert

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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

Bible

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

Epictetus

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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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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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Loos, Anita

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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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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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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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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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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