Pleasure Quotes

It is strange how many things will happen to intercept every pleasure, though it be only that of two friends meeting together.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do something by stealth and have it found out by accident.

Pleasure that comes unlooked for is thrice welcome.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

There is no pleasure on earth worth giving up, for five more years in the Berkeley Pines Senior Citizen Home.

So few of the hours of life are filled up with objects adequate to the mind of man, and so frequently are we in want of present pleasure or employment, that we are forced to have recourse every moment to the past and future for supplemental satisfactions, and relieve the vacuities of our being by […]

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

He goes on about the wailing and gnashing of teeth. It comes in one verse after another, and it is quite manifest to the reader that there is a certain pleasure in contemplating the wailing and gnashing of teeth, or else it would not occur so often.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.