Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

There is no pleasure that I haven't actually made myself sick on.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs

Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

But there's so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.

This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

A lot of young people think they are not going to die - and that's a great thing about being a young person, is living in this carefree oblivion.