Pleasure Quotations
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| Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. | |||
| - Jane Austen | |||
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| In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. | |||
| - Honoré de Balzac | |||
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| Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. | |||
| - William Burroughs | |||
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| Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. | |||
| - Thomas Carlyle | |||
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| In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. | |||
| - Cicero | |||
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| There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. | |||
| - Max Eastman | |||
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| The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. | |||
| - Germaine Greer | |||
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| We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure. | |||
| - Sydney J. Harris | |||
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| Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. | |||
| - Soren Kierkegaard | |||
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| It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years. | |||
| - Peter Lynch | |||
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| There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. | |||
| - Ovid | |||
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| Pleasure is the bait of sin. | |||
| - Plato | |||
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| No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. | |||
| - Publilius Syrus | |||
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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 | |||