PLEASURE QUOTES
quotations about pleasure
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
JANE AUSTEN, Emma
The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, Where There Is Nothing
- But pleasures are like poppies spread--
- You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed;
- Or like the snow falls in the river--
- A moment white -- then melts for ever.
ROBERT BURNS, Tam o' Shanter
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
Why not seize pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
The highway of pleasure is crossed by many toll-gates.
Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
OSCAR WILDE, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.
ARTHUR ADAMOV, Ping Pong
- Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day
- And dances by false glare at night;
- But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves
- To spread its wings in Nature's light.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES, Joy and Pleasure
Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.
HORACE MANN, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man
Pleasure and pain seem to have been accidentally cast in the same mold.
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
ECKHART TOLLE, The Power of Now
Man's sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible.
SUSAN HUBBARD, The Society of S
As a grim skull lies covered beneath the fairest face; so does an abyss of torment lie beneath the surface of the glittering sea of sensual pleasure and dissipation.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
When happiness was a matter of pleasure, and pleasure a matter of taste, one could be happy simply by rolling in filth.
DARRIN M. MCMAHON, Happiness: A History
Pleasure is the sun of the morning, the cloud of the meridian, and the storm of the evening.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it--when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two enterprises: pornography and cafés.
ERIC WEINER, The Geography of Bliss
Pleasure is the Divine seasoning in the diet of life.
We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to the destruction of all. For pleasures are very voracious, too apt to worry one another, and each, like Aaron's serpent, is prone to swallow up the rest. Thus drinking will soon destroy the power, gaming the means, and sensuality the taste, for other pleasures less seductive, but far more salubrious, and permanent as they are pure.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.
FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters and Reflections
Past pleasures are of as little comfort to a man as the money in his neighbor's pocket.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
They that seldom take pleasure, seldom give pleasure.
FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters, and Reflections
There are people who cannot enjoy a pleasure unless they have first persuaded themselves that it is a duty. They are perhaps the most confirmed hedonists of all, for they are not content to enjoy without the added delight of conscious rectitude.
JOHN WILLIAM MACKAIL, "On Giving Advice"
Pleasure is a crumbling statue.
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