Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
Samuel Johnson Quotes
When pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
Pleasure itself is not a vice.
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue: pleasures of some sort are necessary to the intellectual as to the corporeal health; and those who resist gaiety, will be likely for the most part to fall a sacrifice to appetite; for the solicitations of sense are always at hand, and a dram to […]
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty.
No man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
For we who live to please must please to live.
He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
