Pleasure Quotes

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Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. - William Henley


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


Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins. - Lionel Tiger


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


There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. - Max Eastman


Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. - Jean de Boufflers


In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. - Cicero


Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. - Søren Kierkegaard


In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. - Honore de Balzac


Pleasure and discipline need to stay close friends. - Terri Guillemets


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


Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. - Jane Austen


No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. - Publilius Syrus


Hark ye of little pleasure! See your way clearly as your destiny reveals its truth! Seek not completion lest your touch be forever dismissed! - My wordfriend, the always conversationally frisky Tim Irwin, 2014


For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch. - Terri Guillemets


The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. - Germaine Greer


Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. - William Burroughs


When will pleasure crash with regret? - Terri Guillemets


There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. - Ovid, Metamorphoses