Commonplace 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

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the…

— John Tillotson

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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

It's fun to give pleasure to people.

— Sheila Heti

“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always…

— Georges Bataille

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

— Bertrand Russell

“Prove - and an easy task it is - that so-called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments...”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lifes simple pleasures, being free, not letting the small things be a burden.

— Anonymous

Usually you're forced to do what necessity demands, and pleasure is a luxury.

— Mike Connors