Pleasure Quotes

"I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features."
-Henry David Thoreau

"You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books."
-Voltaire

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about."
-Yiddish proverb

"The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived."
-Oscar Wilde

"Perhaps all pleasure is only relief."
-William S. Burroughs

"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity."
-Germaine Greer

"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."
-O. A. Battista

"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united."
-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

"Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business."
-Raymond Hitchcock

"In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it."
-Alexander Smith

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."
-Mark Twain

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
-Aristotle

"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . ."
-Socrates

"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."
-Thomas Jefferson

"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?"
-Oscar Wilde

"No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect."
-William Shakespeare

"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short."
-William Shakespeare

"He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure."
-Horace Mann

"The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure."
-Michel de Montaigne

"A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"She is the least benightedly unintelligent organic lifeform it has ever been my distinct lack of pleasure not to have been able to avoid meeting."
-Douglas Adams

"Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily."
-Epicurus

"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable."
-Lord Chesterfield

"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
-Agnes Repplier

"I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure."
-Lawana Blackwell

"Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take."
-Peter McWilliams