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Pleasure Quotes - Page 9

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Robinson Jeffers
Ass, Pleasure, Carrots

Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.

Rex Harrison
Thieves, Tomorrow, Pleasure

To find pleasure in life, make the most of the spring.

Li Bai
Spring, Pleasure
Li Po, “Drinking Alone In The Moonlight”

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

Heraclitus
Fighting, Emotion, Pleasure

Love your work, then you will find pleasure in mastering it.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Work, Love You, Pleasure

Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life

Giovanni Papini
Life, Breathing, Pleasure

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

Eric Jerome Dickey
Imagination, Pleasure, My Imagination
Eric Jerome Dickey (2008). “Pleasure”, p.20, Penguin

Be superior to pleasure.

Cleobulus
Good Life, Pleasure, Superiors

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Charles Caleb Colton
Bears, Pleasure, Fullness

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

Brooke Shields
Class, Knowing, Pleasure

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

Baruch Spinoza
Indulge Yourself, Healthy, Pleasure

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

Viktor E. Frankl
Men, Pleasure, Find Me

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Stendhal
Pleasure, Proportion
Stendhal (1915). “On Love”

The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.

Sigmund Freud
Games, Movement, Pleasure

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

Shirley Hazzard
Pleasure, Has Beens

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

Seneca the Younger
Excess, Pleasure, Repetition

Those who desire only the good pleasure of God abide in peace even in the midst of failure, for God has not told us that He requires success of us.

Rose Philippine Duchesne
Desire, Pleasure, Midst

Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.

Roger Scruton
Wine, Pleasure, Objects
Roger Scruton (2013). “I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

How much pleasure can you stand?

Richard Bandler
Pleasure
Richard Bandler (2008). “Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation: How to Harness the Power of Hypnosis to Ignite Effortless and Lasting Change”, p.190, Health Communications, Inc.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sorrow, Pleasure
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “A defense of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.43

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

Nancy Mitford
Writing, Misery, Pleasure
Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Luc de Clapiers
Happiness, Fruit, Pleasure
"Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers (No. 200), 1746.

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.

Lord Chesterfield
Giving, Doe, Pleasure
Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.351

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

Kinky Friedman
Financial, Life Is, Pleasure
Kinky Friedman (2009). “'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out: Reflections on Country Singers, Presidents, and Other Troublemakers”, p.5, Zondervan

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

Jane Austen
Pain, Remembrance, Pleasure
Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

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