Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.
every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain
Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.
Work, especially if you're lucky in what you do, is one of the great pleasures of life, but - like all pleasures - it can become selfish.
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.
