Pleasure Quotes - Page 6

• Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

  Horace

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  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Ars Poetica, 338, 1922.

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• Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Pleasant Surprises, Foolish

  'Emma' (1816) ch. 26 (Mr John Knightley)

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• One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Success, Sex

  Emma ch. 9 (1816)

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• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272

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• The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Deeds Done, Charity

  "The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb".

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• O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

  Alexander the Great

  Toil, Please, Athenians

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations V2: Drawn From The Speech And Literature Of All Nations, Ancient And Modern (1922)". Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

  John Heywood

  Thee

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.32

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• I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Money, Tired

  Sonnets and Verse (1923) "Fatigued"

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• Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Life, Success, Business

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sorrow

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “A defense of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.43

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• Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

  Voltaire

  Drinking, Food, Godly

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• Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

  Horace

  Pain, Despise

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• Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

  Robert Burns

  Flow, Poppies, Spread

  'Tam o' Shanter' (1791) l. 59

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• Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Children, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

  Alice Miller

  Friendship, Real Friends, Gossip

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• Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Eye, Mind, Fellowship

  "De Senectute", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

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• I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

  John Mortimer

  Years, Worry, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pleasures Of Life, Satiety, Greatest Pleasures

  "De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 25), 55 BC.

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• I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Life, Happiness, Thinking

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.20, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

  George Sand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

  Max Eastman

  Self, Conscious, Pursuit

  Max Eastman (1948). “Enjoyment of living”

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• Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

  Stendhal

  Spoiled, Describing

  Stendhal (1955). “The private diaries of Stendhal [pseud.]”

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• Money gives me pleasure all the time.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Giving, Silly Love, Funny Valentine

  'Fatigued' (1923)

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• Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Success, Business

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.25, Penguin

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• The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

  Gore Vidal

  Finding The One, Car, Literature

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