Short-Term Pleasure Quotes

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.

Live for today, plan for tomorrow, party tonight, party tonight.

If you do what is easy, your life will be hard

Well, you're going to be dead in a hundred years anyway, so live dangerously.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

I used to drink wine. This girl asked me, "Doesn't wine give you a headache?" "Yeah, eventually, but the first and the middle part are amazing!"

Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.

Football puts everything at your fingertips. And I was raised in a way that focused everything on looking after your family. Faith really helped me realise that the temptations that you have on hand will give you joy, enjoyment, whatever, but only for a short while. And after that, it is all gloom.

You can think about life as a battle between you and a doughnut shop. The doughnut shop wants you to eat another doughnut and pay the money, and you want to do it in the short term, but in the long term it's not good for you either financially or from a health perspective.

Instant gratification takes too long.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

Working is not instantly rewarding. It's a long process, and it's much easier to just feed whatever dopamine cycles exist in your brain in instant gratification ways. I get it; I do it.

I don't care about lasting. I just want right now.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.

Like I tell people they wind up having short term pleasure and long term pain. I'm a tell what Minister Louis Farrakhan said, "Black people ain't poor, they just don't spend wisely" and that's the truth.

When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.

Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.