There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord Byron
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
Max Eastman
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
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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
Pleasure is the bait of sin.
Plato
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
Publilius Syrus
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Germaine Greer
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.
Rebecca West
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
Plato
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed
Albert Einstein
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