Pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
Pleasure Quotes
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.
Debauchee, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.
However versed we may be in satiety, we remain caricatures of our precursor Xerxes. Was it not he who promised by edict a reward to anyone who could invent a new pleasure? That was the most modern gesture of antiquity.
There is more pleasure in building castles in the air than on the ground.
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.
