Pleasure Quotes

Pleasure is the bait of sin.

Plato

Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain.

William Henley

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

Blaise Pascal

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.

Soren Kierkegaard

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.

Samuel Johnson

But mortal bliss will never come sincere; Pleasure may lead, but grief blow brings up the rear

Greek proverb

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

Emile Durkheim

Sex is unclean, not because of the pleasure, but because of the suffering it brings

Theodore Roeszak

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

Henry Van Dyke

It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can and should derive sexual pleasure from intercourse

Bertrand Russell

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Euripides

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

C.S. Lewis

Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.

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