Pleasure Quotes - Page 40

• The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

  Mason Cooley

  Life, Boredom, Resentment

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• The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.

  Mason Cooley

  Overcoming, Limitation

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• I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.

  Mason Cooley

  Pursue

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• Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

  Mason Cooley

  Gone, Sour

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• If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Trying, Pity

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• The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

  Mason Cooley

  Acting, Actors, Theater

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• Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently.

  Susan Sontag

  Reading, Book, Waiting

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• The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Writing, Shining, Celebrate

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• Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Art, Real

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.295

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• If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Balance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.63, Xist Publishing

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• The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Law, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.381

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• Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Excess

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• Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.

  Mason Cooley

  Secret, Masturbation, Contempt

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• Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

  Mason Cooley

  Addiction, Vengeful, Turns

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• The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Reading, Letters, Biographies

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1985). “Gossip”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Money, Father

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• One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.

  Iain Banks

  Law, May, Advantage

  "The Player of Games (The Culture, Book 2)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 2, p. 279), 1988.

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• Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Mind, Employment, Increase

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• Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good; and being so, he would receive the far surer and more certain reward, springing from well-doing, which would constitute his pleasure, and promote his happiness.

  Ernestine Rose

  Atheist, Punishment, Atheism

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.

  Ida Tarbell

  Children, Work, Sleep

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• My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.

  Henry Adams

  Dog, Men, Rivers

  Henry Adams (1951). “Selected letters”, New York, Farrar

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• God made all pleasures innocent.

  Caroline Norton

  Innocent, Made

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1871). “The Lady of La Garaye”, p.34

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• Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Independent, Forgiving, Emptiness

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• The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lust, Miserable, Shame

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• Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures

  Kent Bach

  Drinking, Wine, Doe

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