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
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
Francesco Petrarch