Action Quote by Mark Twain

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are…

— Mark Twain

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

— Anonymous

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

— Bertrand Russell

Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we…

— Marcel Proust

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention…

— John Stuart Mill

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

— Mason Cooley

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

— Stendhal

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

— Tibor Fischer

Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures…

— Cornel West