Enjoy these proverbs and quotes about pleasure.
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A vacation is like love: anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
Evan EsarI was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
John SteinbeckNothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.
John F. KennedyOne half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane AustenPleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
Eckhart TolleReading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold BloomSurprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane AustenThe aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
AristotleThe day had been a complete washout. I had had no lunch, no life-giving infusions of coffee. It had been a day without pleasure or reward.
Bill BrysonSource: Lost Continent
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da VinciThe person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane AustenSource: Northanger Abbey
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSource: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.
Mason CooleyWhen pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
Jane Austen