Pleasure Quotes

Pleasure and happiness are desired by one and all. We strive towards achieving enjoyment in our respective lives. Work ceases to be work when we experience joy performing it. Similarly a random relationship or a food item etc sometimes bring pleasure to our lives and make us cheerful. Pleasurable objects are our weak points since they are so attractive. Valuable wisdom is imparted in the following quotes on pleasure and delight. Read the next section carefully to understand the quotations.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Understanding Excitement Learning
Leonardo da Vinci

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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
Life Business
Aaron Burr

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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Life Advice Opinion Discussion
Omar Khayyam

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I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.
Nora Roberts

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It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.
Support
Martin Sheen

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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
Fun Nothing
Andrew Jackson

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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder
Love Authors Opinion Perception
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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Interior decor is my guilty pleasure. If I'm going to splurge on something, it's more for my home than for clothes.
Home
Kourtney Kardashian

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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Pain
Alan Watts

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A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
Men Desire Thinking Emotions
Helen Rowland

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I play for pleasure, for the passion that I have as a football player.
Football Play
Edinson Cavani

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The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.
Obsession
Christian Bale

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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Being Yourself Discussion Self Esteem Self Respect
Salvador Dali

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There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
John Dryden

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
Growth Happiness
William Butler Yeats

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I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?
People
John Belushi

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Knowledge
Bertrand Russell

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Oh, the brave music of a distant drum!
Music Concentration Discussion Enjoyment
Omar Khayyam

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I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
Fred Rogers

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It was a big pleasure to play a Grand Slam match on my birthday.
Birthday Play
Dominic Thiem

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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
Poetry Benefit Proverbs Truth
Thomas Hobbes

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There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
Muhammad Ali

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I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
School
Stanley Kubrick

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My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life.
Friendship Life Advice Opinion
Omar Khayyam

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L. Ram Saran Das was a member of the revolutionary party which was held responsible for many a violent deed. But this by no means proves that revolutionaries are bloodthirsty monsters, seeking pleasure in destruction.
Demolition
Bhagat Singh

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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Pain Wisdom
Aristotle

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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Pain Indebtedness Revenge
Samuel Johnson

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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
Good Action
Charles Lamb

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It's always a pleasure and a blissful experience to work with Yash Raj Films banner.
Experience Work
Rhea Chakraborty

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Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
Hillaire Belloc

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Perfection Work
Aristotle

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Money gives me pleasure all the time.
Money Time
Hillaire Belloc

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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Time Work
Charles Baudelaire

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It was an absolute pleasure just to be able to tell my grandkids, 'Yep. I Superman-punched Vince McMahon right in the face twice.' You can put that on my mantle.
Right Face
Roman Reigns

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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
Nothing Life
John D. Rockefeller

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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Pain Things Freedom
John Stuart Mill

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Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
William S. Burroughs

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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
Love
Lord Byron

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A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
Groucho Marx

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I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
Focus
Matt Damon

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In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.
Nothing People Work
Guy Ritchie

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Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
People World Information
Walt Disney

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I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
Al Gore

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Art Giving
Dale Carnegie

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All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
Pain Things
John Stuart Mill

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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Art Poetry Truth
Samuel Johnson

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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Liberty
Hermann Hesse

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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Sigmund Freud

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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
Pain Right Happiness
John Stuart Mill

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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Humanity
Marcel Proust

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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
Christmas Tree
T. S. Eliot

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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Beauty Quality
Charles Baudelaire

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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe

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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Pride World
Martin Luther

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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
Dreams
Simone Weil

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People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
People
Marcel Proust

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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Prayer Heart
Mahatma Gandhi

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When I was younger, there were players who gave me pleasure, and now I'm in that role.
Kylian Mbappe

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I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
Focus
Harrison Ford

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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
Character Wives
George Santayana

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I take pleasure in discovering resourcefulness inside me.
Rachael Stirling

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When you're a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do.
Celine Dion

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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Modern
Aldous Huxley

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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Effort
Samuel Johnson

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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
Charles Baudelaire

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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
Communication
Michel de Montaigne

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There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Contribution
Charles Dickens

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Modern
Aldous Huxley

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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Bierce

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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
Honoré de Balzac

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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Gertrude Stein

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I like to watch MTV for escapist pleasure, but when I saw Snooki, I saw my twin. I couldn't lose myself in the show anymore because there I was.
Anne Hathaway

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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
Lord Byron

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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Taste Giving
Charles Baudelaire

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honoré de Balzac

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I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it.
Greatness Science
William Gibson

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I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.
David Bowie

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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Joseph Addison

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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
People
Eric Hoffer

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
Death Writing
Ernest Hemingway

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Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.
Fathers Play Luck
Debbie Reynolds

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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Hope Mind
Samuel Johnson

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Whenever I was able to work with Hillary Clinton, it was a great pleasure.
Greatness Work
Angela Merkel

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The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Surprise Feelings
Eric Hoffer

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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Pain Laughter
Aldous Huxley

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Toil Thought
Victor Hugo

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Having a son is not all pleasure.
Yoko Ono

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Give a little love to a child and you will get a great deal back.
Family Love Children’s Day Utterance
Anonymous

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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
Buddhism Body Selflessness Sharing
Anonymous

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Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.
Easter Festivity Time Trees
Anonymous

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