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O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you! - Alexander, the Great, quoted by Carlyle in "Essays on Voltaire" Pleasure pursues beautiful objects--what is agreeable to look at, to hear, to smell, to taste, to touch. But curiosity pursues the contraries of these delights with the motive of seeing what the experiences are like, not with a wish to undergo discomfort, but out of a lust for experimenting and knowing. What pleasure is to be found in looking at a mangled corpse, an experience which evokes revulsion? Yet wherever one is lying, people crowd around to be made sad and to turn pale. - Saint Aurelius Augustine (Augustine of Hippo), Confessions (bk. X, no. 35) It is happy for you that possess the talent of pleasing with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study? - Jane Austen (signed first book "By a Lady"), Pride and Prejudice (ch. XIV) No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth. - Francis Bacon The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer. - Honore de Balzac Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground but holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some sprite begotten of a summer dream. - Laman Blanchard, Sonnet VII--Hidden Joys Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, The Art of Poetry (canto III, l. 374) Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. - Christian Nestell Bovee Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain. - Robert Browning But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white--then melts forever. - Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter (l. 59) The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. - Aaron Burr, Letter to Pichon Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 1) To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. - Charles Buxton There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes By the deep Sea, and music in its roar. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 178) Let me have my own way exactly in everything, and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist. - Thomas Carlyle In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality. [Lat., Ludendi etiam est quidam modus retinendus, ut ne nimis omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in aliquam turpitudinem delabamur.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Officiis (I, 29) In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. [Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum est.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Oratore (III, 25) Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ita dicam) praestringit oculos, nec habet ullum cum virtute commercium.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Senectute (XII) Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. [Lat., Divine Plato escam malorum appeliat voluptatem, quod ea videlicet homines capiantur, ut pisces hamo.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Senectute (XIII, 44) The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance. - Jeremy Collier Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. - Charles Caleb Colton The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. - Charles Caleb Colton Who pleases one against his will. - William Congreve, The Way of the World--Epilogue That, though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. - William Cowper, History of John Gilpin (st. 8) Displaying page 1 of 4 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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