Pleasure Quotes

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

Pleasure itself is not a vice

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction.

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

Nothing in all the world is so good as the knowledge and love of Christ, and no pleasure that can be enjoyed equal to the joy of serving Him with all one's heart.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.

Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.

A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.