Pleasure Quotes

Look not on pleasures as they come, but go. Defer not the least virtue; life’s poor span Make not an ell by trifling in thy woe. If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains; If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.

It’s human nature to keep doing something as long as it’s pleasurable and you can succeed at it – which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

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.

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.