Pleasure Quotes
51 quotations about Pleasure
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Authors on Pleasure
American Proverb
Minna Antrim
Aristotle
Jane Austen
Walter Bagehot
Honore De Balzac
Bible
Josh Billings
Pierre Bonnard
Warren Buffett
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Aaron Burr
Charles Buxton
Lord Byron
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Pierre Charron
Marcus T. Cicero
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
John Donne
Margaret Drabble