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Pleasure

«...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.»
Author: Billy Collins | About: Pleasure, Poetry, Poets
«No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.»
«One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.»
Author: O. A. Battista | About: Enemies, Pleasure | Keywords: genuinely, lasting, pleasures
«Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.»
Author: Stendhal | About: Pleasure | Keywords: spoiled
«Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.»
Author: William S. Burroughs | About: Pleasure | Keywords: relief
«No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.»
Author: Horace (Poet) | About: Pleasure | Keywords: drinkers
«Pleasure is none, if not diversified.»
Author: John Donne | About: Pleasure | Keywords: diversified, diversifies, diversify
«Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life»
«No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety»
Author: Publilius Syrus | About: Pleasure | Keywords: endures, unseasoned, variety
«No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Pleasure | Keywords: hypocrite

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