All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues
Jonathan Swift
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
Francesco Petrarch
Pleasure itself is not a vice
Samuel Johnson
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety
Publilius Syrus
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Aphra Behn
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure - they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm
Jeremy Bentham
Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure
Portuguese Proverb
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Tony Benn
With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase
Abraham Lincoln
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed
Albert Einstein
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation
Plato