Pleasure Quotes

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

George Santayana

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it -- because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?

Colonel Harland Sanders

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

Honore de Balzac

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Tryon Edwards

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

J. PetitSenn

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

Marcel Proust

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Douglas William Jerrold

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

Lucretius

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Lucretius

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

Friedrich Nietzsche

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Buxton

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

Samuel Butler

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Aristotle

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Pierre Bonnard

Her in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

Jane Austen

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.

Alexander Woollcott

Pleasure is the bait of sin

Plato

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.

William Ellery Channing