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

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

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

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

Lucretius

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

Bagehot, Walter

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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

Drabble, Margaret

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

Seneca

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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 the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Charron, Pierre

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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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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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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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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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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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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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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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