Pleasure Quotes

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Rich the treasure; sweet the pleasure.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man, more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after.

Pleasure’s couch is virtue’s grave.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom’s treasure, There is no sterner moralist than Pleasure.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture in the lonely shore, there is society, where naught intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.