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Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
-Chinese Proverb
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
-Proverb
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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
-Proverb
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
-Joseph Addison
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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
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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
-Minna Antrim
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
-Jane Austen
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-Walter Bagehot
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
-Honore de Balzac
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
-Honore de Balzac
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
-Roland Barthes
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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
-Georges Bataille
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I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.
-Robert Benchley
Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat, No Poems: or around the world backwards and sideways., 1932
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It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
-Arnold Bennett
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
-John Berger
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, pt. 2, Random House (1984)
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Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. Proverbs 9:17
-Bible
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He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.
-Bible
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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
-Josh Billings
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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.
-William Blake
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Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
-Pierre Bonnard
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For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
-Nathaniel Branden
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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
-Warren Buffett
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
-Aaron Burr
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Books about Pleasure
