Immediate Pleasure Quotes
- Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is… — David Hume
- Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as… — Russell Kirk
- Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy. — R C Sproul
- It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future.… — W. Somerset Maugham
- Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Maturity is the willingness to pass up immediate pleasure in favor of the long-term gain. — Nikhil Saluja