Pleasure Quote by Horace Mann

Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.

— Publilius Syrus

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

— Gautama Buddha

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

— Dante Alighieri

The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity…

— Blaise Pascal

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

— James Norwood Pratt

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for…

— Henry Giroux

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and…

— Aristotle

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

— Ovid

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

— David Foster Wallace

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to…

— Alan Watts