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  • Aristotle said:

    Consider pleasures as they depart not as they come.

  • No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth.

  • Robert Burns said:

    Pleasures are like poppies spread You seize the flower its blossom is shed! Or like the snowfall in the river A moment white – then melts for ever.

  • Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.

  • Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body they are increased by repetition approved by reflection And strengthened by enjoyment.

  • I Ching said:

    Instead of solid accomplishments the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.

  • Plato said:

    Pleasure is the bait of sin.

  • The pleasure is momentary the position ridiculous and the expense damnable.

  • That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

  • Edward Young said:

    A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

  • Jane Austen said:

    One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

  • Aphra Behn said:

    Variety is the soul of pleasure.

  • PLEASURE n. The least hateful form of dejection.

  • I do not like to repeat successes I like to go on to other things.

  • John Dryden said:

    Rich the treasure Sweet the pleasure Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  • One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

  • Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure when he is really selling himself to it.

  • I walked a mile with Pleasure She chatted all the way But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And neer word said she But oh the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

  • Don Herold said:

    I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

  • Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

  • Norman Lear said:

    Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you dont collect all these tiny successes the big ones dont really mean anything.

  • I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

  • No profit grows where is no pleasure taen: In brief sir study what you most affect.

  • Ah that such sweet things should be fleet Such fleet things sweet!

  • Oscar Wilde said:

    Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

  • Put this restriction on your pleasures be cautious that they injure no being that lives.

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