Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Charron, Pierre

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

Proverb, Chinese

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

Little, Mary

10.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

13.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Moliere

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bonnard, Pierre

21.

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

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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

35.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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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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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Vaneigem, Raoul

44.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

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