Quotes about pleasure

"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 on pleasure
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"A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion."

Antrim, Minna on pleasure   

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

Aristotle on pleasure
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

Austen, Jane on pleasure   

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

Bagehot, Walter on pleasure   

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

Balzac, Honore De on pleasure   

"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 on pleasure   

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

Bataille, Georges on pleasure
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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 on pleasure   

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

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"He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man."

Bible on pleasure   

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

Billings, Josh on pleasure   

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

Bonnard, Pierre on pleasure   

"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 on pleasure
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"We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds."

Buffett, Warren on pleasure   

"A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on pleasure   

"The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business."

Burr, Aaron on pleasure   

"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 on pleasure   

"To make pleasures pleasant shorten them."

Buxton, Charles on pleasure   

"There is no sterner moralist than pleasure."

Byron, Lord on pleasure
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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 on pleasure   

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on pleasure
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"Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions."

Charron, Pierre on pleasure
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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 on pleasure
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"In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures."

Cicero, Marcus T. on pleasure   

"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 on pleasure   

"Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on pleasure   

"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 on pleasure   

"Pleasure is none, if not diversified."

Donne, John on pleasure   

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

Drabble, Margaret on pleasure
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"Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave."

Duganne, Augustine J. on pleasure   

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

Edison, Thomas A. on pleasure   

"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end."

Edwards, Tryon on pleasure   

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

Einstein, Albert on pleasure
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"Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on pleasure
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"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."

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

Franklin, Benjamin on pleasure
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"The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on pleasure   

"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 on pleasure   

"Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure."

Goldsmith, Oliver on pleasure