Quotes About Pleasure

But Johnny hasn't got twelve children, Tom." "One doesn't have a cousin in trouble every day," said Toogood. "And then you see there's something very pretty in the case. It's quite a pleasure getting it up.

As man is never strong enough to take unmixed delight in good, so may we presume also that he cannot be quite so weak as to find perfect satisfaction in evil.

Eating is an occupation from which I think a man takes the more pleasure the less he considers it. A rural labourer who sits on the ditch-side with his bread and cheese and an onion has more enjoyment out of it than any Lucullus

Lady Glendora herself had a love for the mountains and lakes, but it was a love of that kind which requires to be stimulated by society, and which is keenest among cold chickens, picnic-pies, and the flying of champagne corks.

And then how grievous a thing it is to have the pleasure of your novel destroyed by the ill-considered triumph of a previous reader.

In life I've rung all changes through, Run every pleasure down, 'Midst each excess of folly too, And lived with half the town.

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel

though she seemed made for the pleasures of the flesh, there yet was a sense of spiritual striving about her, and a healthiness of mind and body which pleased him who spent so much of his time with the

One must never let one's little pleasures interfere with the really important affairs of life.

I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

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

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

The life of active virtue is essentially pleasant.

since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.

But in all cases we must guard most carefully against what is pleasant, and pleasure itself, because we are not impartial judges of it.

Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come second—compare the parallel in painting, where the most beautiful colours laid on without order will not give one the same pleasure as a simple black-and-white sketch of a portrait.

one difference between him and other animals being that he is the most imitative of living creatures, and through imitation learns his earliest lessons; and no less universal is the pleasure felt in things imitated.

The self-indulgent man, then, craves for all pleasant things or those that are most pleasant . . . Hence he is pained both when he fails to get them and when he is craving for them, for appetite involves pain.

The many, the most vulgar, would seem to conceive the good and happiness as pleasure, and hence they also like the life of gratification. Here they appear completely slavish, since the life they decide on is a life for grazing animals.