Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

Best Quotes about Pleasure

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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

Proust, Marcel

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 is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Aristotle

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

Wilde, Oscar

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Keats, John

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Charron, Pierre

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

Voltaire

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

Billings, Josh

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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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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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

32.

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

Moliere

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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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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Bagehot, Walter

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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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

Drabble, Margaret

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.