Pleasure Quotes
4661 quotes by 2609 authors
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
— Aristotle
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
— Aristotle
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and…
— Johann Arndt
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
— David Attenborough
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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they…
— Margaret Atwood
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
— Saint Augustine
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
— Jane Austen
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
— Jane Austen
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
— Jane Austen
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in…
— Teresa of Avila
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
— Honore de Balzac
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
— Francis Bacon
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
— Walter Bagehot
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
— Russell Baker
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People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
— Russell Baker
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The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.
— Christian Bale
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
— Balthus
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
— Honore de Balzac
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his…
— Honore de Balzac
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