Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

Bible

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

Epictetus

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Billings, Josh

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Bagehot, Walter

11.

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

12.

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

Bonnard, Pierre

13.

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

Aristotle

14.

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

Balzac, Honore De

15.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

16.

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

17.

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

18.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

19.

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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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

21.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

22.

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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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Little, Mary

26.

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

27.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Bennett, Arnold

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

30.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

31.

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

Loos, Anita

32.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

33.

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

34.

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

36.

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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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

38.

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

Seneca

39.

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

40.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

41.

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

Voltaire

42.

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

Moliere

44.

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

Drabble, Margaret

45.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

46.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

49.

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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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous