Quotes about Pleasure

“Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.”

“Pleasure is none, if not diversified.”

“Work is often the father of pleasure.”

“No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.”

“To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.”

“A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.”

“There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”

“Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.”

“We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.”

“Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”

“To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.”

“Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.”

“Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.”

“Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.”

“God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”

“So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.”

“When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.”

“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

“The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.”

“A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.”

“If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?”

“In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.”

“We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.”

“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

“A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.”

“Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”

“We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.”

“Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.”