Anticipation Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

— Alexander Pope

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater…

— Anonymous

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any…

— John Stuart Mill

“Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Follow nature and not fashion: weigh the present enjoyment of…

— Earl of Chesterfield

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

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as…

— Epicurus

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

“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as…

— Epicurus

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

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

— William Hazlitt

“In our minds we can proceed without hesitation to the place we might never go in our own lives. There is an opportunity to…

— K. Kiker