Pleasure Quotes

“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

“Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated”

“No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.”

“Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.”

“I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.”

“Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.”

“Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.”

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.”

“Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.”

“Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;And now, instead of mounting barbed steedsTo fright the souls of fearful adversaries,He capers nimbly in a lady's chamberTo the lascivious pleasing of a lute.”

“There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.”

“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”

“These violent delights have violent ends.”

“Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.”

“The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.”

“Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before.”

“These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume”

“The sweetest honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousness.”

“Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.”

“One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.”

“Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.”

“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”

“We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."”

“Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.”

“I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.”