Companionship Quote by Michel de Montaigne

So I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink and be merry.

— Bible

There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of…

— Laurence Sterne

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

— Francois Fenelon

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.

— Thomas Brooks

We can fight our desires, oo-oo but when we start making fires, we get ever so hot, oo-oo whether we like it or not.

— La Roux

“There is a sweetness to life that can only be tasted when our eyes are truly open to our purpose and calling. The taste…

— DeAnna Kinney

“Most people guard against going into the fire and so end up in it. Those who love the water of pleasure and make it…

— Rumi

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

— Jerry Smith

“Water is strange stuff. It is formless and transparent, and yet we long to be beside it. It has no taste and yet we…

— Bill Bryson

There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

— Ovid

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley