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.
Pleasure Quotes
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.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
He that makes his pleasure be his business, will never make his business be a pleasure.
Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow.
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth.
Pleasure after all is a safer guide than either right or duty.
The heart asks pleasure first, and then excuse from pain, and then those little anodynes that deaden suffering.
