Best Quotes about Pleasure
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
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Loos, Anita
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Franklin, Benjamin
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
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
Bonnard, Pierre
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
Warner, Marina
Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.
Virgil
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
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Johnson, Samuel
Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
Proverb
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Moliere
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
Pascal, Blaise
He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Wilde, Oscar
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]
Bible
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
Lewis, C. S.
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
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
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
Buxton, Charles
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
Goldsmith, Oliver
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
Billings, Josh
People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
Proust, Marcel
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle
Work is often the father of pleasure.
Voltaire
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Huxley, Aldous
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
Donne, John
When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
Proverb, American
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
Antrim, Minna
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
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Duganne, Augustine J.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Bataille, Georges
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Little, Mary
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato
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
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Cicero, Marcus T.
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
Proverb, Chinese
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Bagehot, Walter
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
Mencken, H. L.
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
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
Charron, Pierre
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
Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
Hitchcock, Raymond
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
Lucretius
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
Einstein, Albert
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
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
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