Inspirations

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

- Joseph Addison

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

- Walter Bagehot

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

- Honore De Balzac

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.

- Bible

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

- Proverbs 9:17, Bible

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

- Josh Billings

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

- Pierre Bonnard

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

- Warren Buffett

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

- Aaron Burr

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

- Pierre Charron

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

- Lord Chesterfield

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

- Sri Sarada Devi

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

- Thomas A Edison

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread, they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

- Tryon Edwards

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

- Albert Einstein

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

- Epictetus

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

- Frederick The Great

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us, of becoming happy, is not attainable, yet we may not, nay, cannot, give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

- Sigmund Freud

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals, love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

- Aldous Huxley

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

- Thomas Jefferson

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

- Douglas William Jerrold

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

- Samuel Johnson

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

- Soren Kierkegaard

The pleasures of the world are deceitful, they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.

- Madame De Lambert

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

- C S Lewis

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

- Blaise Pascal

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it, and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.

- Samuel Pepys

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

- John Petit-Senn

People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

- Marcel Proust

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

- Proverb

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

- American Proverb

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage, but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

- Chinese Proverb

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

- John D Rockefeller

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

- Seneca

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

- Harold J Smith

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace, and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

- Thomas Traherne

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

- Virgil

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

- Voltaire

Work is often the father of pleasure.