Advantage Quote by Petrarch

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us…

— Madame de Lambert

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

— Anonymous

“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

Pleasures remain. So does the pain

— Depeche Mode

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

— Anonymous

This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in…

— John Tyler

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

— William Wordsworth

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

— Muriel Spark

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

— 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

The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.

— Aristippus