Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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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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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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

Charron, Pierre

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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

Drabble, Margaret

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

Bible

29.

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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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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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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

Moliere

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

Aristotle

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Seneca

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

Lucretius

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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato