Quotes About Pleasure

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

The physically fit can enjoy their vices.

A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after.

Angling is an innocent cruelty.

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reveling in a much-anticipated vacation.

The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?...Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus, like mercy, is twice blessed.

What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being admired more by those who do not know so much about us.

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

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.

The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.

Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

This is wisdom: to love wine, beauty, and the heavenly spring. That's sufficient-the rest is worthless.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men.

First health, then wealth, then pleasure, and do not owe anything to anybody.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.