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O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

It is happy for you that possess the talent of pleasing with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground but holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some sprite begotten of a summer dream.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white--then melts forever.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Pleasure blinds the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

Who pleases one against his will.

That, though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind.

Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain.

I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way; But left me none the wiser, For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.