Pleasure Quotes

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure

Pleasure is the bait of sin.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

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

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

Sydney J Harris

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

William Borroughs

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

Pleasure is the bait of sin.

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

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

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