Quotes about Pleasure
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Aristotle
Greek philosopher and polymath
(384 BC - 322 BC)
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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. Votes: 3
George SandEach morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. Votes: 3
Salvador DaliPleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. Votes: 2
Eckhart TolleI have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. Votes: 2
Clarence DarrowTo give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Votes: 2
Mahatma GandhiDraw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. Votes: 1
Pierre BonnardWhen I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life. Votes: 1
Monica BellucciThere is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. Votes: 1
Andrew JacksonIf we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldOh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life! Votes: 0
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningA life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonPleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeLove's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life.
Jean-Pierre Claris de FlorianPleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.
Claude Adrien HelvetiusIf you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHabit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonPoetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeShow me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
Charles Maurice de TalleyrandPain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerMen's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.
William ShakespearePleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.
Philibert Joseph RouxYour greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
Henry Ward BeecherSex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Lord ChesterfieldIf anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle
Dorothy L. SayersSweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?
John Sullivan DwightDoing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.
Steven MorrisseyWe must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
Walter Darby Bannard'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
William StaffordAs a chef Iâm not your dietitian or your ethicist, Iâm in the pleasure business.
Anthony BourdainOne glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryThe world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?
Lucy Maud MontgomeryI could bring you so much pleasure, erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body.
Madonna CicconePleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonWhile he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.
William ShakespeareOnce writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
Ernest HemingwayI take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.
Martin HeideggerThe artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
Seneca the YoungerAn honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Thomas JeffersonNever to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
William WordsworthIt makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.
Oprah WinfreyHis distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
Ann BrasharesMy special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.
Bernard BolzanoTo love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear.
Clarissa Pinkola EstesI always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.
Francis Ford CoppolaWhen good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.
Josh BillingsPleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.
Marcus Tullius CiceroPleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.
Martin SeligmanPleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
Samuel JohnsonAnd the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
Oliver Goldsmith"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."
Charles DickensThe true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
Francoise Bertaut de MottevilleA German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.
Frederick the GreatIn youth, the absense of pleasure is pain, in old age, the absence of pain is pleasure.
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount SidmouthWhat gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.
Julianne MooreI wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.
Lord ChesterfieldWhere's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?
Terry PratchettThe human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.
Ornette ColemanInfatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!
Anthony MaraisArt is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
Auguste RodinFear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.
Deepak ChopraIt is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure ...
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningTo drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
Ellen GlasgowThere's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.
Gary D. SchmidtI have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
Izaak WaltonWe are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.
Jacob NeedlemanThe King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure.
Jacques NeckerPleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
Jeremy BenthamThe one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.
John Henrik Clarke