Pleasure Quotes

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...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure`s source.

- Billy Collins

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

- C.S. Lewis

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

- Tony Benn

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

- Oscar Wilde

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

- Oscar Wilde

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

- Oscar Wilde

With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase

- Abraham Lincoln

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

- Leonardo Da Vinci

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

- Thomas Jefferson

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity

- Germaine Greer

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains

- Democritus

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

- Mary Worley Montagu

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

- Plato

Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure

- Portuguese Proverb

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure

- Robert South

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

- Stendhal

Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.

- Kedar Joshi