Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Little, Mary

Best Quotes about Pleasure

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Bataille, Georges

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

10.

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

Moliere

11.

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

Bonnard, Pierre

12.

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Drabble, Margaret

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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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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

Balzac, Honore De

21.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Epictetus

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Voltaire

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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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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's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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