Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

- Buxton, Charles

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Drabble, Margaret

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Moliere

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

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

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

Aristotle

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

Charron, Pierre

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

10.

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

Loos, Anita

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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

15.

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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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

20.

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

Seneca

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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

Voltaire

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

Lucretius

26.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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

Bible

28.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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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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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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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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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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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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