Quotes about Pleasure, page 2

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

Quote by Aristotel about pleasure

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

Quote by George Gordon Byron about pleasure

know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about pleasure

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about pleasure

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about pleasure

I neglected my appearance, my health, and I could not summon interest for any pleasure.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about pleasure

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Quote by James Russell Lowell about pleasure

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

Quote by Jane Austen about pleasure

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Quote by Charles Dickens about pleasure

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about pleasure

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about pleasure

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about pleasure

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

Quote by Federico Fellini about pleasure

I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.

Quote by Adam Garcia about pleasure

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about pleasure

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about pleasure

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about pleasure

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about pleasure

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about pleasure

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure,...

Quote by Samuel Johnson about pleasure