Average Quote by H. L. Mencken

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

— Marcel Proust

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

— Benjamin Franklin

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

— Viktor E. Frankl

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

— Stephen King

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

— Sophocles

I believe that man was created to enjoy himself, indeed, that he can claim it as his legitimate right. In fact, as long as…

— Kafu Nagai

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

— Stendhal

The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether…

— Alan Watts

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

— Joseph Addison

A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his…

— Charles de Saint-Evremond

Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure…

— Swami Vivekananda

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

— Leo Tolstoy