Saturday 10 August 2013

Pleasure

 Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain.  ~William Henley


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


Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.  ~Lionel Tiger


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 www.onlineexamguide.com


There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.  ~Max Eastman


Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.  ~Jean de Boufflers


In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.  ~Cicero


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


In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.  ~Honore de Balzac


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


Pleasure is the bait of sin.  ~Plato www.onlineexamguide.com


Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. ~Jane Austen


No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. ~Publilius Syrus


For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch. ~Terri Guillemets


The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. ~Germaine Greer


Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. ~William Burroughs


When will pleasure crash with regret? ~Terri Guillemets www.onlineexamguide.com


There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ~Ovid, Metamorphoses

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