| Author |
Quotes |
| Aaron Burr | The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. |
| Augustine J Duganne | Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave. |
| Ben Jonson | Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. |
| Charles Lamb | The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. |
| Epicetus | When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it. |
| H L Mencken | The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it. |
| Honore de Balzac | In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. |
| John Heywood | Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee. |
| Kazi Shams | Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure. |
| Laman Blanchard | Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground but holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some sprite begotten of a summer dream. |
| Lord Byron | Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. |
| Lord Byron | There is no sterner moralist than pleasure. |
| Lord Chesterfield | Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. |
| Marcus T Cicero | In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. |
| Marina Warner | The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. |
| Mary Wortley Montagu | I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. |
| Minna Thomas Antrim | A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. |
| Nicolas Boileau Despreaux | Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. |
| Robert Browning Hamilton | I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way; But left me none the wiser, For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me! |
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