Quotes
Quotes about Pleasure
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure.
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
There is a pleasure in poetic pains, Which only poets know.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is, Then mark how full Possession falls from this, How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit,-- I am perplext, and often stricken mute. Wondering which attained the higher bliss, The wing'd insect, or the chrysalis It thrust aside with unreluctant foot.
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasure imaginary.
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.
There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people: we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.
