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Pleasure Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
- Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.
- The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.
- Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has…
- You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but…
- Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive
- Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in…
- We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our…
- If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of…
- Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could…
- Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
- He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a…
- Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
- Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a…
- Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou…
- You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expression, nor show too much pleasure ; but endeavor to console…
- Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors
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
- Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac