Pleasure Quotes - page 5

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. (William S. Burroughs)
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! View quote
Joseph Addison
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. View quote
Joseph Addison
Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. View quote
John Dryden
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. View quote
Margaret Drabble
The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions. View quote
Roberto Bolaño
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths. (Roberto Bolaño)
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit by which Nature herself is animated. View quote
Auguste Rodin
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. View quote
Benjamin Spock
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
There is a pleasure in poetic pains. Which only poets know. View quote
William Cowper
Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk And this our queen shall be as drunk as we. View quote
Henry Fielding
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. View quote
Alan Watts
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. (Baruch Spinoza)
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. View quote
Jane Austen
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. View quote
Jane Austen
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life. View quote
Charles Lamb
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth. View quote
Francis Bacon