Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.
Pleasure Quotes
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
I walked a mile with pleasure; she chattered all the way. But I was none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with sorrow, and ne’re a word said she. But oh the things I learned from her when sorrow walked with me.
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.
