Pleasure Quotes

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

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler

Great, Fool, Yourself

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

Truth, Art, Poetry

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

Loving, Beloved

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Health, Men

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Forward, Enjoy, Looking

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

Effort, Read, General

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

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

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

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

Life, Success, Another

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

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

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

Give, Same, Nightmare

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

Important, Fashion, Worth

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

Long, Give, Last

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

Took, Trip, Airport

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

Wisdom, May, Though

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
Alphonsus Liguori

God, Hope, Mother

Buying is a profound pleasure.
Simone de Beauvoir

Profound, Buying

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

Life, Good, Great

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

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

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Dreams, Free, Nobody

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

Music, Mind, Human

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
John D. Rockefeller

Coming, Dividends, Gives

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