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

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

Loos, Anita

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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

Epictetus

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Voltaire

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Billings, Josh

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

Moliere

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

Bible

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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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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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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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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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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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Seneca

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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

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

Aristotle

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

Lucretius

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lewis, C. S.