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Pleasure Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we…
- The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
- With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
- Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow,…
- Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
- Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider…
- Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
- Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the…
- He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his…
- The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
- There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to…
- Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it…
- Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it…
- Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage…
- To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are…
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