Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself a slave to it.
Pleasure Quotes
Debauchee, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.
However versed we may be in satiety, we remain caricatures of our precursor Xerxes. Was it not he who promised by edict a reward to anyone who could invent a new pleasure? That was the most modern gesture of antiquity.
There is more pleasure in building castles in the air than on the ground.
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.
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.
