Pleasure Quotes

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee; Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

He buys honey too dear that licks it from thorns.

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

One should be just as careful in choosing one’s pleasure as in avoiding calamities.

Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. (about film audiences)

Pleasure itself is not a vice.

A reveler I go, freighted with fire, not wine, beneath the region of my heart.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else – these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of troubles.

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue: pleasures of some sort are necessary to the intellectual as to the corporeal health; and those who resist gaiety, will be likely for the most part to fall a sacrifice to appetite; for the solicitations of sense are always at hand, and a dram to […]