Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Loos, Anita

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

Epictetus

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

Billings, Josh

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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

Drabble, Margaret

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

Wilde, Oscar

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, 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

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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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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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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

Moliere

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

Charron, Pierre

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

28.

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

Lucretius

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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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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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

Lewis, C. S.

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Bible

42.

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

Aristotle

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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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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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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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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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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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