Pleasure Quotes
51 quotations about Pleasure
Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Work is often the father of pleasure.
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
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