Pleasure Quotes - Page 8

• Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Happy, Dog

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• Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

  A. E. Housman

  Perfect, Poetry, Understanding

  "The Name and Nature of Poetry". The Leslie Stephen Lecture, Cambridge University, May 09, 1933.

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• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  Ovid

  Worry, Anxiety, Pure

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• A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

  Minna Antrim

  Complaining, Fool, Moral

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• Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

  John Donne

  Ifs

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics

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• Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

  Aphra Behn

  Love, Secret, Cease

  1686 The Lover's Watch,'Four o'Clock. General Conversation'.

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• My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Dream, Annoyed, Refuge

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.1, Wordsworth Editions

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• Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.

  Stanislas de Boufflers

  Love, Memories, Flower

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• There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Farewell, Woods

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

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• With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Ends, Catching

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.113, Wildside Press LLC

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• When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

  Monica Bellucci

  Real, Food, Ice Cream

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

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• Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

  William Ernest Henley

  Pain, Men, May

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

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• The greatest pleasure in life is love.

  William Temple

  Sweet, Engagement, Life Is

  Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift, Lady Martha Giffard (1740). “The life and character of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679 to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679”, p.309

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• No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

  Publilius Syrus

  Endure, Variety

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• Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

  Brock Yates

  Fitness, Exercise, Thinking

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• Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

  Mark Strand

  Pain, Poetry, Ends

  "In The Presence Of America: A Conversation With Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

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• But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

  John Bunyan

  Flower, Poppies, Spread

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• Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Style, Age, Way

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto III)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Life Is, He Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.335

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• I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

  Francis Quarles

  Reading, Writing, Wish

  'Emblems' (1635) 'To the Reader'

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• Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

  Robert Burns

  Fall, Rivers, White

  'Tam o' Shanter' (1791) l. 59

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• Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.

  Charles Lamb

  Years, Heaven, Spheres

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• The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Sensible, Delicate, Promoting

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• Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

  William Wycherley

  Business

  "The Country Wife".

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• As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

  Norman Spinrad

  Children, Reading, Science

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