Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
Pleasure Quotes
I walked a mile with pleasure; she chattered all the way. But I was none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with sorrow, and ne’re a word said she. But oh the things I learned from her when sorrow walked with me.
No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare.
Bang-whang-whang goes the drum, tootle-tetootle the fife; No keeping one’s haunches still: it’s the greatest pleasure in life.
Thus always teasing others, and days teas’d, His only pleasure is to be displeas’d.
I should be sorry, my lord, if I gave pleasure to men; my aim is to make them better. (to a nobleman after the first London performance of the “Messiah)
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white – then melts forever.
I chased perpetual pleasure and got a full measure of pain as a payback.
Love causes more pain than pleasure. Pleasure is only illusory. Reason would command us to avoid love, if it were not for the fatal sexual impulse – therefore it were best to be castrated.
