Pleasure Quotes - Page 7

• My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Success, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Summer, Dream, Lying

  Samuel Laman Blanchard, “Hidden Joys”

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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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• 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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• Money gives me pleasure all the time.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Giving, Silly Love, Funny Valentine

  'Fatigued' (1923)

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• Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

  Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne

  Virtue, Couches, Graves

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• 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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• Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

  Horace

  Pain, Despise

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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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• Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Plato, Men, Sea

  "De Senectute", XIII. 44, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

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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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• The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

  Aaron Burr

  Life Is, Pleasures Of Life

  "Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar" by Marshall Brown, (p. 67), 1899.

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• When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it's like a game, and you have fun with it. When you love, you don't expect something to happen; whatever happens is okay, and hardly anything disappoints you.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Fun, Love You, Games

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• Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

  Plato

  Plato, Pleasure Love, Evil

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

  Truman Capote

  Music, Writing, Creativity

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Florida, Waiting, Kitchen

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.19, Knopf

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• The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Stars, Shining, Gutters

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• Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.

  David Hume

  Pain

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.3

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• Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling of connection. It could just be the colour. But it is something that someone other than you has seen and felt. It is momentous. It is magic.

  Sara Genn

  Creative, Joy, Feelings

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• If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Success, Wine

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

  Confucius

  Music, Wisdom, Art

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• God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

  Eric Liddell

  Motivational, Sports, Running

  "Fictional character: Eric Liddell". "Chariots of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

  Emma ch. 30 (1816)

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• Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

  Margaret Drabble

  Wisdom, Simple, Misery

  1963 A Summer Birdcage, ch.7.

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