Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Pleasure

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wilde, Oscar

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Bataille, Georges

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Seneca

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Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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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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You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Moliere

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

Bagehot, Walter

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God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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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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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

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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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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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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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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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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bible

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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

Aristotle

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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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

Charron, Pierre

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.