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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!
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 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
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