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Pleasure Quotes - Page 28

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

Christopher Marlowe, William Oxberry (1818). “Doctor Faustus: a tragedy”, p.62

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Oberon, II, 52, 1922.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2621, Delphi Classics

pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

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Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

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

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.67

Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.

Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.174, U of Nebraska Press

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.99, Library of America

Business first; pleasure afterwards.

The Queen of Paflagonia in 'The Rose and the Ring' (1855) ch. 1

The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.

William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.638, Simon and Schuster