Quotes
Quotes about Pleasure
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
Epicurus laid down the doctrine that pleasure was the chief good.
I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.
Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
The novelist admits that he wants to give pleasure, while the poet and epic dramatists talk more about spiritual exaltation
There is probably no greater happiness in this world than that derived from writing, in a void, for pure pleasure - to see whether places and people, speech and action, can be fixed on paper and then, like a lesser divine creation, rise from that paper and live
You know that the desire for money is infantile? It goes back to a baby's playing with its own mess. Pleasure in handling fecal matter
In youth is pleasure
Is it not a pleasure to learn and to repeat or practice from time to time what has been learned? Is it not delightful to have friends coming from afar? Is one not a superior man if he does not feel hurt even though he does not feel recognized?
[T]hough love is thus an end in itself, it must be believed to be the means to another end if it is to assume the rosy hues of an unalloyed pleasure.
Yet, though love is thus an end in itself, it must be believed to be the means to another end if it is to assume the rosy hues of an unalloyed pleasure.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They're a different breed of dog.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They're a different breed of dog.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They're a different breed of dog.
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure.
Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
