Pleasure Quotes

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Sex: The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Let pleasure be ever so innocent the excess is always criminal.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure – they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive.

Pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself a slave to it.

Debauchee, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.