6 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Pleasure

Samuel Johnson quotes on pleasure

74. Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

83. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

100. It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

145. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

151. Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

164. Pleasure of itself is not a vice.