Thou mak’st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund. (The Tempest)
Pleasure Quotes
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
There is pleasure in abundance but you will not find it by seeking for it. I know no occupation in life more barren of results than the permanent seeking of pleasure. Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore. do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, […]
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
The great source of pleasure is variety.
The true pleasures are almost innumerable. Relations and friends, conversation, books, music, poetry, art, exercise and rest, the beauty and variety of nature are but a few of them.
Ah that such sweet things should be fleet, Such fleet things sweet!
Look not on pleasures as they come, but go. Defer not the least virtue; life’s poor span Make not an ell by trifling in thy woe. If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains; If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.
Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
It’s human nature to keep doing something as long as it’s pleasurable and you can succeed at it – which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
