Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

- Little, Mary

Best Quotes about 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

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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

Bible

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Mencken, H. L.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Epictetus

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

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Lucretius

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

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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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

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Balzac, Honore De

17.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Bataille, Georges

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

23.

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Lewis, C. S.

25.

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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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

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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

29.

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

Drabble, Margaret

30.

People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

Proust, Marcel

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Loos, Anita

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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

35.

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

Charron, Pierre

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

40.

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 the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Voltaire

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

47.

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

Moliere

48.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar