Pleasure Quotes - Page 8

• Pleasure is a thief to business.

  Daniel Defoe

  Thieves

  'The Complete English Tradesman' (1725) vol. 1

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• Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Strong, Eye, Laughing

  "The Gardener". Book by Rabindranath Tagore, 27, 1915.

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• Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
  And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Hands, Cease

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire”, p.79

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• Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

  Robert Burns

  Fall, Rivers, White

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

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• The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Sensible, Delicate, Promoting

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• The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

  Hannah More

  Rose, Long, Lasts

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.342

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• Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

  William Wycherley

  Business

  "The Country Wife".

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• As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

  Norman Spinrad

  Children, Reading, Science

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• I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies.
  [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
  Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

  Horace

  Sky, Reign, Praise

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• Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Growth, May, Discontent

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.273

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• What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive.
  [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]

  Ovid

  Attractive, Unlawful, Undesirable

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• I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

  Rebecca West

  Confusion, Use, Tests

  Rebecca West (2005). “Woman as Artist and Thinker”, p.11, iUniverse

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• No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

  Publilius Syrus

  Endure, Variety

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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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• Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

  John Donne

  Ifs

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics

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

  Confucius

  Music, Wisdom, Art

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• A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

  Minna Antrim

  Complaining, Fool, Moral

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• With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Ends, Catching

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.113, Wildside Press LLC

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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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• Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Happy, Dog

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• Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

  A. E. Housman

  Perfect, Poetry, Understanding

  "The Name and Nature of Poetry". The Leslie Stephen Lecture, Cambridge University, May 09, 1933.

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• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  Ovid

  Worry, Anxiety, Pure

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• The greatest pleasure in life is love.

  William Temple

  Sweet, Engagement, Life Is

  Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift, Lady Martha Giffard (1740). “The life and character of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679 to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679”, p.309

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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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