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Pleasure

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
- Billings, Josh
Pleasure Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Pleasure

1.
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

2.
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
Lewis, C. S.

3.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Bagehot, Walter

4.
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
Charron, Pierre

5.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]
Bible

6.
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
Antrim, Minna

7.
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
Einstein, Albert

8.
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

9.
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

10.
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato

11.
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
Pascal, Blaise

12.
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

13.
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

14.
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
Lucretius

15.
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

16.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Wilde, Oscar

17.
Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
Hitchcock, Raymond

18.
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

19.
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Duganne, Augustine J.

20.
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

21.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Little, Mary

22.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Bataille, Georges

23.
A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Young

24.
He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

25.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle

26.
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
Warner, Marina

27.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
Buxton, Charles

28.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Johnson, Samuel

29.
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Moliere

30.
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

31.
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
Buffett, Warren

32.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Edison, Thomas A.

33.
So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.
Seneca

34.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
Mencken, H. L.

35.
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
Donne, John

36.
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

37.
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Loos, Anita

38.
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

39.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
Billings, Josh

40.
Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.
Virgil

41.
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

42.
People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
Proust, Marcel

43.
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
Proverb, Chinese

44.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Balzac, Honore De

45.
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

46.
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Voltaire

47.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Franklin, Benjamin

48.
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.
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

50.
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Huxley, Aldous


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