Pleasure Quotes - Page 15

• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  Dale Carnegie

  Dance, Art, Positivity

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.117, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

  George Orwell

  Jealousy, Sports, War

  "The Sporting Spirit" (1945)

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• Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  "The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous".

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• The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Average

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• Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

  Oscar Wilde

  Nature, Men, Tests

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.94, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Pain, Pain And Pleasure

  'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

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• In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Fall, May, Limits

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, De Officiis (44 B.C.), I. 29, 1922.

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• Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Possibility, Disappoint

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

  Mortimer Adler

  Self, Lust, Sensual

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1991). “Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Giving, Literature, Taste

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Happiness, Illusion

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• Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Graduation

  H. Jackson Brown Jr., Rochelle Pennington (2001). “Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well”, p.79, Harper Collins

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• We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Investing

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.153, John Wiley & Sons

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• I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

  Lord Byron

  Atheist, Believe, Mind

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• It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Photographer

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• Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

  William Congreve

  Marriage, Grief, High Heels

  "The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar: With Biographical and Critical Notices".

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• I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

  Rene Descartes

  Math, Science, Discovery

  Rene Descartes (2007). “The Geometry of Rene Descartes”, p.240, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Family, Sorrow

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.182

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• The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Giving, Feelings, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

  Doris Lessing

  Stars, Cutting, People

  'The Habit of Loving' (1957) ch. 17

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• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, War, Government

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.301, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Book, Reading, Literacy

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Women

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Communication, Grieving

  Michel de Montaigne, Antoine JAY (1842). “The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne; Comprising; the Essays, Translated by Cotton; the Letters; the Journey Into Germany and Italy, Now First Translated; a Life by the Editor; Notes: ... Critical Opinions; ... the Éloges of MM. Jay and Villemain; a”, p.457

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