Pleasure - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66094<![CDATA[Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65978<![CDATA[Anticipation makes the pleasure. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65846<![CDATA[For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62899<![CDATA[Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62898<![CDATA[There is no sterner moralist than pleasure. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46728<![CDATA[That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46729<![CDATA[In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46730<![CDATA[Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46726<![CDATA[Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46727<![CDATA[The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46721<![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46722<![CDATA[We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46723<![CDATA[Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46724<![CDATA[The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46725<![CDATA[I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46716<![CDATA[The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46718<![CDATA[When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46720<![CDATA[Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46710<![CDATA[Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46711<![CDATA[The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46712<![CDATA[Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46713<![CDATA[A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46714<![CDATA[Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. [Lat., Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46706<![CDATA[I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46707<![CDATA[Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. [Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46708<![CDATA[I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46709<![CDATA[Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46705<![CDATA[Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46704<![CDATA[Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46698<![CDATA[Who pleases one against his will. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46699<![CDATA[That, though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46700<![CDATA[Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46701<![CDATA[Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46702<![CDATA[I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way; But left me none the wiser, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46703<![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. Or like the snow falls ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46691<![CDATA[The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46692<![CDATA[Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46693<![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46694<![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46695<![CDATA[In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. [Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum est.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46696<![CDATA[Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46697<![CDATA[Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46680<![CDATA[With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46681<![CDATA[Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46682<![CDATA[The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46683<![CDATA[Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46684<![CDATA[Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46685<![CDATA[O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you! ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46687<![CDATA[It is happy for you that possess the talent of pleasing with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46688