The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Germaine Greer
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Cicero
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de Balzac
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
Jane Austen
Pleasure is the bait of sin
Plato
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Euripides
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young
Oscar Wilde
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
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures
Unknown
Better be alone than in bad company
Thomas Fuller