Quotes
Quotes about Pleasure
Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.
Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour When health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.
The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.
May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend, O'er pleasure's pathway thrown; But mem'ry is the only friend That grief can call its own.
But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is a genuine pleasure.
There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business, To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasureâthe relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle, 'Twas St. Patrick himself sure that set it; And the sun on his labor with pleasure did smile, And with dew from his eye often wet it. It thrives through the bog, through the brake, and the mireland; And he called it the dear little shamrock of Ireland-- The sweet little shamrock, the dear little shamrock, The sweet little, green little, shamrock of Ireland!
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.
When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past-- For years fleet away with the wings of the dove-- The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.
