Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

- Young

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bible

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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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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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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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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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 vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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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 very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Voltaire

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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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 is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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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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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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

Aristotle

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Loos, Anita

36.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Charron, Pierre

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Epictetus