Pleasure Quotes

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One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing whe

One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world.

Pleasure Suffering

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Raymond Hitchcock

Pleasure

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

Happiness Inspirational Pleasure

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad i

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

Humor Funny Pleasure Wickedness

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Pleasure

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Pleasure

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Pleasure

Happiness is pleasure without regret

Happiness is pleasure without regret

Happiness Pleasure Regret

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.

Pleasure

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Pleasure

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this

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 the Great

Pleasure

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Pleasure

Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jok

Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

Lord Chesterfield

Pleasure

If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could al

If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights are only available to madmen and dictators

Bertrand Russell

Pleasure

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Life Pain Memory Pleasure

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and wat

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

Charles Dickens

Happiness Christmas Pleasure

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your li

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

Orison Swett Marden

Pleasure

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

Memory Pleasure

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the di

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

Benjamin Franklin

Pleasure

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; lo

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Oliver Goldsmith

Pleasure