Pleasure Quotes
+3The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
- H. L. Mencken
+1Variety is the soul of pleasure.
- Brendan Francis
+1Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
- William Borroughs
+1Pleasure’s couch is virtue’s grave.
- Augustine J Duganne
+1Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
- Juvenal
+1Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- Oscar Wilde
+1The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
- Germaine Greer
+1Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
- Ben Jonson
+1All the great pleasures in life are silent.
- Georges Clemenceau
+1Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
- Plato
+1Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is.
- C.S. Lewis
+1Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin is a pleasure.
- Rochdale
+1Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
- Aldous Huxley
+1After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.
- Danish proverb
+1One’s first book, kiss, home run is always the best.
- Clifton Fadiman
+1The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind.
- Jean Paul Richter
+1A sense of wrong doing is an enhancement of pleasure.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.
- Maxwell Perkins
+1Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
- Mary Wortley Montagu
+1Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
- Horace
+1That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
- Kin Hubbard
+1The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
- Marina Warner
+1We must like what we have when we don’t have what we like.
- Roger Bussy
+1Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex.
- Oscar Wilde
+1Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit and its own ways.
- Nicolas Boileau
+1In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
- Cicero
+1That, though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind.
- William Cowper
+1The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
- Aristotle
+1We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
- John Petit
+1Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.
- Horace
+1Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain.
- William Henley
+1Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain.
- John Dryden
+1From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
- Philip Dormer
+1There are three ingredients in the good life; learning, earning and yearning.
- Christopher Morley
+1The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
- Aaron Burr
+1Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
- C. S. Lewis
