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Pleasure Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
- Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.
- Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
- In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of…
- Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make…
- Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd…
- Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught,…
- In men we various ruling passions find, In women, two almost divide the kind; Those, only fixed, they first orlast obey, The love of pleasure,…
More Pleasure Quotes
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen