Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex
Oscar Wilde
Pleasure is the bait of sin.
Plato
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
Jane Austen
Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.
Unknown
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
C.S. Lewis
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Euripides
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C.S. Lewis
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity
Germaine Greer
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
Gore Vidal