Pleasure Quotes - Page 9

• I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

  Rebecca West

  Confusion, Use, Tests

  Rebecca West (2005). “Woman as Artist and Thinker”, p.11, iUniverse

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• Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Growth, May, Discontent

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). "Las obras poéticas de H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition", p.273

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• Siempre deja que la fantasía vague, el placer nunca está en casa.

  William Cowper

  Home, Imagination, Fancy

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• El placer es frágil como una gota de rocío, mientras ríe muere. Pero el dolor es fuerte y duradero. Deja que el amor triste despierte en tus ojos.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Fuerte, Ojo, Reír

  "El jardinero". Libro de Rabindranath Tagore, 27, 1915.

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• The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

  Hannah Más

  Rose, Long, Lasts

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.342

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• Pleasure is a thief to business.

  Daniel Defoe

  Ladrones

  'The Complete English Tradesman' (1725) vol. 1

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• I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies.
  [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
  Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

  Horace

  Sky, Reign, Praise

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• And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

  Edmund Spenser

  Paine

  Edmund Spenser (1873). “The Faerie queene (continued)”, p.41

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• What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive.
  [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]

  Ovid

  Attractive, Unlawful, Undesirable

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• Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
  And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Hands, Cease

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire”, p.79

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• Lo que ha gustado y sigue gustando, es probable que vuelva a gustar; de ahí se derivan las reglas del arte, y sobre esta base inamovible deben permanecer siempre.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Foundation, Please

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1906). “A Selection from the Discourses Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”

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• Pleasure itself is not a vice

  Samuel Johnson

  Vicios

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• El placer en el trabajo pone la perfección en el trabajo.

  Aristotle

  Inspiración, Motivación, Positivo

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• Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

  John Selden

  Benefits, Please, Hunts

  John Selden, Richard Milward (1689). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden”, p.100

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• Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

  Demócrito

  Pain, Wind, Moderation

  "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

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• Los dolores del amor son mucho más dulces que todos los demás placeres.

  John Dryden

  Amor, Vida, Ruptura

  "Tyrannic Love" (1669) acto 4, esc. 1

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• Si te interesa "equilibrar" el trabajo y el placer, deja de intentar equilibrarlos. En lugar de eso, haz que tu trabajo sea más placentero.

  Donald Trump

  Inspiración, Vida, Motivación

  Donald J. Trump, Meredith McIver (2004). “Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life”, p.92, Random House

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• Todos intentamos huir del dolor y de la muerte, mientras buscamos lo agradable.

  Albert Einstein

  Death, Pain, Trying

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

  Pierre Charron

  Pain, Opposites, Companion

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• The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Miserable, He Man

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.108

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• Todo lo que es nuevo o poco común suscita un placer en la imaginación, porque llena el alma de una agradable sorpresa, gratifica su curiosidad y le da una idea de la que antes no disponía.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.273

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• Para un hombre de placer cada momento parece perdido, lo que no participa de la vivacidad de la diversión.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Success, Men

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.159

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• El amor consiste en dar sin recibir a cambio; en dar lo que no se debe, lo que no se debe al otro. Por eso el verdadero amor nunca se basa, como las asociaciones por utilidad o placer, en un intercambio justo.

  Mortimer Adler

  Amor Verdadero, Amor Es, Dar

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• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

  Saint Augustine

  Pain, Animal, Class

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• People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

  Russell Baker

  Funny, Sarcastic, People

  "The Sport of Counting Each Other Out" in The New York Times, en.wikiquote.org. November 2, 1967.

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