pleasure quotes
" A smart daughter ought not to examine her future husband too closely. She ought to conside... "
Alain-René Lesage
Alain-René Lesage
11
" Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure,... "
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
11
" When a tree comes to be viewed, no longer as the body of the tree spirit, but simply as it... "
James Frazer
James Frazer
11
" The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
10
" Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carna... "
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
10
" The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been... "
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
10
" To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; ... "
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti
10
" It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persua... "
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
10
" The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me... "
William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt
10
" When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result... "
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
10
" Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which ... "
Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin
10
" A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third... "
Anacharsis
Anacharsis
10
" The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolera... "
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
10
" Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
9
" Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination. "
Paul Claudel
Paul Claudel
9
" Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond... "
Titus Livius
Titus Livius
9
" There's no pleasure i' living if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mi... "
George Eliot
George Eliot
8
" Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squa... "
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
8
" I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to ot... "
Walt Disney
Walt Disney
8
" It gives me great pleasure, indeed, to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformi... "
Einstein
Einstein
8
" People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a... "
Stendhal
Stendhal
8
" In every kind of debauch there enters much coldness of soul. It is a conscious and volunta... "
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
8
" Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restle... "
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nisargadatta Maharaj
8
" Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squa... "
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
8
" A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. "
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
8
" Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. "
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
8
" I do not believe in recovery. The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, i... "
Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman
8
" Human nature is such that the spectacle of another's weakness awakens even in the best of ... "
André Maurois
André Maurois
7
" To kill a relative of whom you are tired, is something; but to inherit his property afterw... "
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac
7
" In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as produ... "
Walt Disney
Walt Disney
7
" The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played ... "
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
7
" All knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in ... "
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
7
" Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else.
When things belong to... "
Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian
7
" My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swayin... "
Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran
7
" Certainly thinking is pleasant, but the pleasure of thinking must be subordinated to the a... "
Émile Chartier
Émile Chartier
6
" If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others. "
François de La Rochefoucauld
François de La Rochefoucauld
6
" Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often... "
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
6
" The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out b... "
Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb
6
" The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are ... "
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer
6
" Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is... "
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
5
" But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the di... "
Thucydides
Thucydides
5
