Pleasure Quotes

• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Stupid

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

  Francis Quarles

  Revenge, Blood, Sweat

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.15

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• Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all the undone things, all the misjudged things... Today, there are new pleasures, new challenges, new magic.

  Ruth Carter Stapleton

  Time, Past, Opportunity

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• Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.

  Robert Bateman

  Taken, Important, Spirit

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• If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

  Luther Burbank

  Everyday, Each Day, Misery

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• It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

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• Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Morning, Creativity

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• One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Real, Jet Planes, Mansions

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• Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

  John Stuart Mill

  Pain, Ends, Desirable

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

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• Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Book, Writing

  Quoted in William Seward, Biographia (1799)

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• It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

  Marquis de Sade

  Pain, Way, Kinky

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Secret, Age And Youth

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind).
  [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

  Ovid

  Savages, Said, Disposition

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• The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

  Germaine Greer

  Essence, Spontaneity

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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  There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Lonely, Nature, Travel

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• (Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

  Abraham Maslow

  Thanksgiving, Appreciation, Gratitude

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Pain And Pleasure, Pain Pleasure

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• Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Lying, Discovery

  "Anna Karenina".

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• The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jan 03, 2015

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• The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

  Pope John Paul II

  Family, Lying, Selfish

  Pope John Paul II (1984). “John Paul II and the Laity”, Le Jacq Pub

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• The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

  Marina Warner

  Pain, Vocabulary, Imagery

  Marina Warner (2003). “Signs & wonders: essays on literature & culture”, Vintage

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• Variety is the soul of pleasure.

  Aphra Behn

  Soul, Variety

  The Rover pt. 2, act 1 (1681) See Cowper 7

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• The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.

  Paul Tillich

  Pain, Work, Joy

  Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.145, U of Nebraska Press

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

  Alexander Pope

  Evil, Understood

  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

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