Pleasure Quotes

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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Katherine Mansfield

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

William Ernest Henley

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

John D. Rockefeller

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.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

Charles Baudelaire

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living.

Henri Poincaré

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed — my dearest pleasure when free.

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

George F. Kennan

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

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

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

Robert Southwell

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Laurence Sterne

I'm tired of Love; I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But money gives me pleasure all the time.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

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

Georges Bataille

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

A man can keep silence in such a ways that no one will even notice it. The whole point is that we say a good deal too much. If we limited ourselves to what is actually necessary, this alone would be keeping the silence. And it is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this "sin" begins. This is something that must be grasped, a "sin" is something which is not necessary.

G. I. Gurdjieff

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.