Giving Quote by Stephen King

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

— Anonymous

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

— Marcel Proust

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.

— Owen Feltham

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

— Stendhal

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

— Sophocles

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

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

— Lord Chesterfield

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure…

— Baltasar Gracian

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to…

— Samuel Pepys

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

Sometimes you have to give up present pleasure for future gain.

— Melchor Lim

None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like…

— James Goldsmith