Pleasure Quotes

Ever let thy Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.

Find here what each desires: men’s pleasure goes – Strange ways: one pulls a thorn and one a rose.

The mechanics of utility and self-interest… to satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort – to procure the greatest amount of what is desirable at the expense of the least desirable – in other words, to maximize pleasure, is the problem of economics.

The desires of the senses call you to roam abroad, but when their hour is spent, what do you bring back but a burdened conscience and a distracted heart? A cheerful going out often brings a sad home-coming, and a merry evening brings a sorry morning. For every bodily pleasure brings joy at first, but […]

The test of an enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

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.

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.