Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

Best Quotes about Pleasure

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Loos, Anita

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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

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

Moliere

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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

Charron, Pierre

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

Drabble, Margaret

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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

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Billings, Josh

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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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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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

Bible

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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

Seneca

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

Bagehot, Walter

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.