When pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
Pleasure Quotes
A pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not last forever.
There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. (about film audiences)
Pleasure itself is not a vice.
A reveler I go, freighted with fire, not wine, beneath the region of my heart.
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else – these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of troubles.
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue: pleasures of some sort are necessary to the intellectual as to the corporeal health; and those who resist gaiety, will be likely for the most part to fall a sacrifice to appetite; for the solicitations of sense are always at hand, and a dram to […]
The word wowser… means one who devotes himself to interfering with the private pleasures of his fellow-men.
