Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

Johnson, Samuel

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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

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

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

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proust, Marcel

10.

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

Seneca

11.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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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

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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 none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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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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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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

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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 is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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

Aristotle

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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

Mencken, H. L.

43.

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

Charron, Pierre

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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