Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure – they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
Pleasure Quotes
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive.
Pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself a slave to it.
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.
