“In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.”
“Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.”
“I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.”
“Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.”
“Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.”
“Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.”
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”
“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.”
“All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.”
“Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.”
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
“It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.”
“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”
“Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.”
“Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.”
“The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.”
“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.”
“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
“Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.”
“He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.”
“Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.”
“People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.”
“Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.”
“Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.”
“Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.”
“Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.”
“The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.”
“Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.”
“It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.”