Women are the tax we pay on pleasure.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Solitude is certainly a fine thing; but there is pleasure in having someone who can answer, from time to time, that it is a fine thing.
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac
There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
Charles Baudelaire
The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.
Confucius
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt
The shame love causes is like its pain; we only feel it once. We may feign it afterwards, but we do not feel it. However, the pleasure remains, and that is indeed something.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos
Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Dont make yourself a victim of yourself!
Susan Jeffers
Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own heart will know. Pursue the enjoyments which are of good repute; for pleasure attended by honor is the best thing in the world, but pleasure without honor is the worst.
Isocrates
Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.
Samuel Butler
'Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron
Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.
John Calvin
Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse; envy alone wants both. Other sins last but for awhile; the gut may be satisfied, anger remits, hatred hath an end, envy never ceaseth.
Robert Burton