"Pleasure" quotes | Thousands Of Quotes

Search for quotes

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.

Samuel Johnson

Gratitude

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

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

Stephan Jenkins

Pleasure

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

Thomas Jefferson

Pleasure

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

Mind

Pleasure

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Robinson Jeffers

Pleasure

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

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

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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