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Pleasure Quotes - Page 16

Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.

Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.

David Hume
Pain, Pleasure
David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.3

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

David Hume
Anticipation, Pleasure
David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Illustrated”, p.405, eKitap Projesi

Pleasure is a thief to business.

Daniel Defoe
Thieves, Pleasure
'The Complete English Tradesman' (1725) vol. 1

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.

Charles Bukowski
Understanding, Realizing, Pleasure

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

C. S. Lewis
Pain, Pleasure, Pain And Pleasure

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspiring, Giving, Pleasure
Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.93

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

Bela Lugosi
Years, Actors, Pleasure

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

Baltasar Gracian
Friends, Teacher, Pleasure
Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Mind, Pleasure, Lasting
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.4, 谷月社

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

Anne Desclos
Past, Tears, Pleasure

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!

Alexandre Dumas
Moments, Pleasure, Difficulty
"Fictional character: Edmond Dantes". "The Count of Monte Cristo", www.imdb.com. January 23, 2002.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

Alexander Smith
Gone, Pleasure, Characteristics
Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

Alan Watts
Inspirational, Pleasure, Materials
Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.59, Souvenir Press

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Alan Bennett
Pleasure, Duty

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Grace, Benefits, Pleasure
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1975). “The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life”

Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

William Cowper
Degrees, Judgment, Pleasure
William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.21

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

W. Somerset Maugham
Men, Things In Life, Pleasure
W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.291, Diversion Books

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

Tennessee Williams
Writing, World, Pleasure
Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

Stendhal
Pleasure, Sample, Ifs

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

Sophocles
Misery, Pleasure, Forgetfulness

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

Sigmund Freud
Happiness, Mean, Pleasure

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

Seneca the Younger
Egypt, Thieves, Pleasure

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

Seneca the Younger
Moments, Pleasure, Charm

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

Robert Burns
Thrill, Woe, Pleasure
Robert Burns, P. Austin Nuttall (1866). “The poetical works of Robert Burns”, p.214

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

Ramana Maharshi
Satisfaction, Pleasure, Relative

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