Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

- Donne, John

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

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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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

Moliere

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bible

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Epictetus

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

Billings, Josh

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

Aristotle

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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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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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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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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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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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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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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.

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

Charron, Pierre

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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