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Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. -
Chinese Proverb
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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. -
Blaise Pascal
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures. -
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. -
Mary Little
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The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it. -
Samuel Pepys
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We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. -
John Petit Senn
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. -
Plato
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People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. -
Marcel Proust
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found. -
Molière
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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments. -
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. -
John D Rockefeller
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain. -
Proverb
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? -
Samuel Johnson
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. -
Benjamin Franklin
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You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains. -
Jalal Uddin Rumi
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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 II) Frederick The Great
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us -- of becoming happy -- is not attainable: yet we may not -- nay, cannot -- give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. -
Sigmund Freud
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Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure. -
Oliver Goldsmith
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