Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Pleasure

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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

Billings, Josh

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Loos, Anita

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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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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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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Aristotle

15.

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

Bagehot, Walter

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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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.

24.

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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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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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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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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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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

Drabble, Margaret

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

Moliere

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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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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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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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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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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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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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us -- of becoming happy -- is not attainable: yet we may not -- nay, cannot -- give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Charron, Pierre

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bible

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bataille, Georges