Pleasure Quotes

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture in the lonely shore, there is society, where naught intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

Reason is not pleasure, and pleasure is certainly not a reason.

With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Many young people adopt pleasures, for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name. They often mistake so totally, as to imagine that debauchery is pleasure. You must allow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into […]

The pleasure of life is according to the man who lives it, and not according to the work or the place.