Pleasure Quotes

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
George A. Sheehan

Happiness, Different, Struggling

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Character, Others, Company

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Equality, Human

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

Life, Great, Cannot

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson

Truth, Art, Poetry

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Selfish, Give

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Thomas Fuller

Loving, Beloved

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson

Effort, Read, General

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
Fred Rogers

Child, Story, Holiday

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Lord Byron

Great, Mind, May

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen

Often, Foolish, Surprises

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Samuel Johnson

Woman, Mean, Says

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
Marcel Proust

Real, Different, Others

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
Virginia Woolf

Women, Men, Friendly

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
Michel de Montaigne

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson

Hope, Mind, Human

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Samuel Johnson

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
Eric Liddell

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne Westwood

Important, Everything, Fashion

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Marcel Proust

Important, Humanity, Lies

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
Henny Youngman

Took, Trip, Airport

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace

Long, Give, Last

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

Feeling, Ourselves, Surprise

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Alfred Hitchcock

Give, Same, Nightmare

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Gottfried Leibniz

Music, Mind, Human

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord Byron

Wisdom, May, Though

Buying is a profound pleasure.
Simone de Beauvoir

Profound, Buying

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. Forster

Great, Men, Around

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

Money, Greatest, Able

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Joseph Addison

Life, Good, Great

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