Quotes about Pleasure

I need a divine omnipotence to work it in me. And that is what the apostle Paul teaches in Philippians 2:13: "It is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man has surely some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification, or he has some desires distinct from sense which must be satisfied before he can be happy.

It has been, from age to age, an affectation to love the pleasure of solitude, among those who cannot possibly be supposed qualified for passing life in that manner.Spectator,No 264.

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

Thus Paul denies that the causes of our election can be sought anywhere except in the hidden good pleasure of God.

Full nakedness! All joyes are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies uncloth'd must be, To taste whole joyes.

The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better.

A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.