Pleasure Quotes
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Epictetus
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it. -- Epictetus
Gita, Bhagavad
An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them. -- Bhagavad Gita
Gray, Thomas
To hide her cares her only art; her pleasure, pleasures to impart. -- Thomas Gray
Henley, William E.
Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. -- William Henley
Johnson, Samuel
Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves.
Massinger, Philip
We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness. -- Philip Massinger
Plato
Pleasure is the bait of sin.
Wilde, Oscar
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. -- Oscar Wilde