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

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand Russell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
David Hume

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Clarence Darrow

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.
Robert Mondavi

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Clarence Darrow

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
Honore de Balzac

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

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
John Donne

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann Hesse

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Sophocles

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
Sophocles

I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years.
Paul Gascoigne

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero