Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
John Donne
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident
Charles Lamb
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
Robert Browning
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible
William Feather
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Mary Worley Montagu
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Frederick The Great
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Voltaire
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young
Oscar Wilde
Pleasure is the bait of sin
Plato
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de Balzac
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand
The future belongs to those who are virile, to whom it is a pleasure to live, to create, to whet their intelligence on that of the others
Henri Deterding
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes in the twinkling of an eye, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delights of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed. I shall love you until I die.
Voltaire