Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain.
William Henley
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
Thomas Carlyle
Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain.
William Henley
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.
Jean de Boufflers
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
Jane Austen
Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
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
With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase.
Abraham Lincoln
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Cicero
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
François de la Rochefoucauld
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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.
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
Jane Austen
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Germaine Greer
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de Balzac
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.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is.
C.S. Lewis
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Voltaire
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
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
Robert Browning
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de Balzac
Pleasure’s couch is virtue’s grave.
Augustine J Duganne
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.
Jean de Boufflers
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
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
Democritus
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else – these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial.
Mark Twain
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
John Donne
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
Robert South
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
Max Eastman
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Frederick The Great
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid
When will pleasure crash with regret?
Jareb Teague
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Stendhal
Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible.
William Feather
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
Thomas Carlyle
There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord Byron
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
William Burroughs
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C.S. Lewis
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
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Zig Ziglar
For some, pleasure is a fever they can’t shake. For others, it’s a disease they cannot seem to catch.
Nathaniel LeTonnerre
Pleasure is the bait of sin.
Plato
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Euripides
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
H L Mencken
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
Jane Austen
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Germaine Greer
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
Publilius Syrus
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
William Burroughs