PLEASURE

Related Subjects: Amusement, Bliss, Comfort, Delight, Fun, Happiness, Laughter, Merriment, Sport

1. Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.—BROWNING, La Saisiaz
   

2. Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
   Thrill the deepest notes of woe.—BURNS, Sensibility How Charming
   

3. People should be guarded against temptation to unlawful pleasures by furnishing them means of innocent ones.—W. E. CHANNING
   

4. You steal green apples from the Tree
   Of Life, miscalling greenness pleasure.—LEE W. DODD, To the Younger Generation
   

5. Any pleasure which takes and keeps the heart from God is sinful, and unless forsaken, will be fatal to the soul.—RICHARD FULLER
   

6. If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?—SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Idler
   

7. Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   

8. Short pleasure, long lament.—Proverb
   

9. A pleasure is well paid for which is long expected.—Proverb
   

10. Blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.—SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet LII
    

11. In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You cannot lay a trap for it.—ALEXANDER SMITH, Dreamthorp
    

12. There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.—LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Afterthoughts
    

13. The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.—RICHARD VVHATELY