Quotes
Quotes about Pleasure
Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.
In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality. [Lat., Ludendi etiam est quidam modus retinendus, ut ne nimis omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in aliquam turpitudinem delabamur.]
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. [Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum est.]
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ita dicam) praestringit oculos, nec habet ullum cum virtute commercium.]
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. [Lat., Divine Plato escam malorum appeliat voluptatem, quod ea videlicet homines capiantur, ut pisces hamo.]
That, though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind.
Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain.
I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way; But left me none the wiser, For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!
Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.
Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. [Lat., Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris.]
I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. [Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.]
I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable.
Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
