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Pleasure
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“Pleasure is like a cordial — a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.”
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“These were the things he enjoyed: an unexpected face, the feel of a glass in his hand, low-voiced confidences that went on until dawn and were succeeded by exhaustion.”
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“Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.”
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“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
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“Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.”
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“Business was his aversion; pleasure was his business.”
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“While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.”
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“It is in his pleasures that a man really lives, it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.”
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“Marred pleasure's best, shadow makes the sun strong.”
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“... to enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others ... ”
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“They exchanged one or two universal if minor truths — pleasure was so often more exhausting than the hardest work ...”
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“I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that is it too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.”
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“... all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.”
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“... we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.”
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“Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.”
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“Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.”
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“Instant gratification takes too long.”
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“Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.”
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“Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.”
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“We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.”
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“Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! — I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love — and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.”
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“... just because something is fun doesn't mean it's a waste of time.”
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“There is no pleasure without fatigue and that of the eye, if it is prolonged, is particularly dispiriting.”
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“The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.”
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“Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.”
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“Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.”
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“Nothing is our own: we hold our pleasures / Just a little while, ere they are fled: / One by one life robs us of our treasures: / Nothing is our own except our Dead.”
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“God made all pleasures innocent.”
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“One always finds time for what one likes.”
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“Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.”