Pleasure proverbs

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◆ You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

- Jane Austen99

◆ Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

- John Lubbock99

◆ I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky99

◆ People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

- Thomas Hardy99

◆ ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

- Jane Austen99

◆ Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

- Victor Hugo99

◆ So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

- Hermann Hesse99

◆ Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

- Alfred Hitchcock99

◆ Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

- S?ren Kierkegaard99

◆ Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.

- Gretchen Rubin99

◆ Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.

- Elizabeth Gilbert99

◆ I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

- Rita Mae Brown99

◆ Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

- Jane Austen99

◆ I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.

- Michel de Montaigne99