The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Don’t just hurry, don’t just haste. Don’t just worry, don’t just waste. Life is a treasure, enjoy the pleasure.
– RVM
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
– Aristotle
One man’s pain is another mans pleasure.
Pleasures that we seek are not happiness at its peak. For it is contentment that gives true fulfillment.
– RVM
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
– Seneca
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
– Oscar Wilde
Real pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, and experiencing the power this brings.
– Robert Greene
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
– C.S. Lewis
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
– Plato
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
– Aristotle
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
– William Shakespeare
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
– Chinese Proverb
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
– Voltaire
Don’t mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
– Josh Billings
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
– Lord Chesterfield
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
One of life’s most simple pleasures is spending time with those we love…
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
– Bertrand Russell
Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin’s a pleasure.
– Lord Byron
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
– Tryon Edwards
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
– Germaine Greer
Life wears many faces. Pleasure is the most enticing face, and it’s the face your enemy wears.
With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase.
– Abraham Lincoln
The highway of pleasure is crossed by many toll-gates.
– Lewis F. Korns
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
– Nicolas Chamfort
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
– Leonardo da Vinci
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
– Alfred Hitchcock
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
– Samuel Johnson
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
– John Donne
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
– Stendhal
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
– Jane Austen
Pleasure and discipline need to stay close friends.
– Terri Guillemets
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
– Thomas Jefferson
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
– Eckhart Tolle
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.
– Fulke Greville
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
– Soren Kierkegaard
It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones.
– Jean Webster
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
– C.S. Lewis
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
– Ovid
Pleasure is the sun of the morning, the cloud of the meridian, and the storm of the evening.
– William Scott Downey
If pleasure is what you want, do not suppress the desire. Seek it intelligently.
– Huston Smith
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you.
– Colette
Pleasure is the bait of sin.
– Plato
I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there is nothing guilty about it.
– Busy Phillips
Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.
– Lionel Tiger
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
– Jane Austen
We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
– Horace Mann
Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain.
– William Henley
Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
– Oscar Wilde
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
– Max Eastman