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.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.

He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

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

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.