Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca – Pleasure
I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
Michel de Montaigne – Pleasures and pain
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
Nicolas Chamfort – Pleasure
All the great pleasures in life are silent.
Georges Clemenceau – Pleasure
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.
Voltaire – Happiness, Pleasure
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
Eckhart Tolle – Pleasure
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it
Samuel Johnson – Wit and pleasure
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment
Samuel Johnson – Enjoyment, Pleasure
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
Oscar Wilde – Cigarette, Pleasure
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin Franklin – Pleasure
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
