Pleasure Quotes

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed

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

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Oscar Wilde

With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase

Abraham Lincoln

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

C.S. Lewis

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

O. A. Battista

Pleasure is the bait of sin

Plato

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

Thomas Jefferson

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

Oscar Wilde

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

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity

Germaine Greer

Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure

Portuguese Proverb

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

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Mary Worley Montagu

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Aphra Behn

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety

Publilius Syrus

Pleasure itself is not a vice

Samuel Johnson

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety

Publilius Syrus

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.