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 […]
Pleasure Quotes
The word wowser… means one who devotes himself to interfering with the private pleasures of his fellow-men.
This is not a world to live at random in as you do. To avoid those eternal distresses, to which you are forever exposing us, you must learn to look forward before you take a step which may interest our peace. Everything in this world is a matter of calculation. Advance then with caution, the […]
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain: and he is the best pilot who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which he is beset. Pleasure is always before us; but misfortune is at our side: while running after that, this arrests us. The most effectual means of being secure against […]
Without women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle devoid of pleasure; and the end, of consolation.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.
Ever let thy Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.
