A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter
Bagehot
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Edward Young
A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a
companion, and without a single argument.
Sholem Aleichem
Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.
Angela Carter
Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their
bodies for the pleasure of others.
Merle Kessler
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of
greatest pleasure.
Scott Adams
Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what
serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.
Virginia Woolf
I can sympathize with people's pains, but not their pleasures. There is
something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Aldous
Huxley
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John
D. Rockefeller
I chased perpetual pleasure and got a full measure of pain as a payback.
David
Crosby
I derive pleasure from the suffering of people who don't know what
schadenfreude means.
John Fugelsang
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it
again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no
pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric
ward.
John Mortimer
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease
to please.
Epictetus
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is
also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard
If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that
almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by
his dog.
George Bernard Shaw
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean de la
Fontaine
It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
Marge Piercy
Like all true values, love cannot be bought. Pleasure can be bought, but
not love.
Hermann Hesse
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the
forbidden action they want to take.
Peter McWilliams
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel
Johnson
Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain.
Samuel
Butler (Novelist, 1835-1902)
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste they hurry past it.
Søren
Kierkegaard
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but
they destest at leisure.
George Gordon Byron
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