Accidents Quote by Samuel Johnson

As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these…

— Aristotle

Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.

— David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.

— Cyrus the Great

No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them;…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly…

— Richard Baxter

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and…

— Giambattista Vico

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

— Anais Nin

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

— Confucius

“What a strange thing that which men call pleasure seems to be, and how astonishing the relation it has with what is thought to…

— Plato

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Each must drain His share of pleasure, share of pain.

— Walter Scott