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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. (Lord Byron )
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. (Lord Byron )
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. (Lord Byron )
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. (Lord Byron )
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you. (Lord Byron )
Pleasure is none, if not diversified. (Lord Byron )
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. (Lord Byron )
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. (Lord Byron )
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. (Lord Byron )
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. (Lord Byron )
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. (Lord Byron )
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. (Lord Byron )
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. (Lord Byron )
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices. (Lord Byron )
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us -- of becoming happy -- is not attainable: yet we may not -- nay, cannot -- give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. (Lord Byron )
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure. (Lord Byron )
Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business. (Lord Byron )
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. (Lord Byron )
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. (Lord Byron )
Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment. (Lord Byron )
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. (Lord Byron )
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? (Lord Byron )
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. (Lord Byron )
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. (Lord Byron )
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them. (Lord Byron )
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