Pleasure

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

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(382 votes)   Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(368 votes)   God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(355 votes)   You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

Jalal-Uddin Rumi
1207-1273, Persian Sufi Mystic Poet

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(303 votes)   A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(300 votes)   Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Raymond Hitchcock

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(294 votes)   Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(282 votes)   To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(259 votes)   He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic

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(252 votes)   Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, German Poet

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(241 votes)   It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Arnold Bennett
1867-1931, British Novelist

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(239 votes)   We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(238 votes)   Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright

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(224 votes)   Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil
c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

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(218 votes)   I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Thomas A. Edison
1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE

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