The aim of the wise is not to secure
pleasure, but to avoid pain.
?Aristotle
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine.
Pleasure for one year a marriage;
but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
?Chinese Proverb
The rule of my life is to make business a
pleasure, and pleasure my business.
?Aaron Burr
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains
of moral indigestion.
?Minna Thomas Antrim
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal.
No one feels, who does not at the
same time give it. To be pleased,
one must please. What pleases you in others,
will in general please them in you.
?Lord Chesterfield
I despise the pleasure of pleasing
people that I despise.
?Mary Wortley Montagu
In everything, satiety closely follows
the greatest pleasures.
?Marcus T. Cicero
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a
good action by stealth, and to
have it found out by accident.
?Charles Lamb
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure,
when he is really selling himself to it.
?Benjamin Franklin
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your
imagination, make a just computation
between the duration of the pleasure and that
of the repentance that is likely to follow it.
?Epicetus
The vocabulary of pleasure depends
on the imagery of pain.
?Marina Warner
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
?Lord Byron
