Quotes
Quotes about Pleasure
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
There is no fundamental difference between man and the lower animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thine superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
There is a pleasure sure, in being mad, which none but madmen know.
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste they hurry past it.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw; There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa. - William Julius Mickle,
How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness everywhere!
I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.
What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure.
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
