Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old pleasure quotes, pleasure sayings, and pleasure proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.Eckhart Tolle
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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.John Selden
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If pleasure is what you want, do not suppress the desire. Seek it intelligently.Huston Smith
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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.Andrew Jackson
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.Lord Byron
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That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.Henry David Thoreau
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.Thomas Jefferson
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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.Anita Loos
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Pleasure and pain seem to have been accidentally cast in the same mold.Lewis F. Korns
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.Samuel Johnson
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Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.Fulke Greville
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No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.Publilius Syrus
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Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.Baltasar Gracian
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.Aristotle
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There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.Muhammad Ali
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.Nicolas Chamfort
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Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.Voltaire
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.Behn Aphra
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The less we indulge our pleasures the more we enjoy them.Juvenal
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.John Selden
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A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.Charles Lamb
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.G.K. Chesterton
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.Aldous Huxley
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People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.A.P. Herbert
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after.Lord Byron
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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.Virgil
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I shouldn't be surprised if the greatest rule of all weren't to give pleasure.Moliere