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| A day’s pleasure and a year’s grief. Modern Greek. | 1 |
| A man of pleasure is a man of pains. Young. | 2 |
| A pleasant thing never comes too soon. Danish. | 3 |
| A pleasure is well paid for that is long expected. Italian. | 4 |
| After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting. Danish. | 5 |
| After the greatest danger is the greatest pleasure. | 6 |
| Cent per cent we pay for every vicious pleasure. | 7 |
| Consider not pleasures as they come but as they go. Aristotle. | 8 |
| Every one takes his pleasure where he finds it. French. | 9 |
| Fie upon the pleasure fear can corrupt. La Fontaine. | 10 |
| Fly the pleasure that will bite to-morrow. | 11 |
| Fly pleasure and it will follow thee. | 12 |
| For my own pleasure, as the man said when he struck his wife. | 13 |
| For one pleasure a thousand pains. | 14 |
| From short pleasure long repentance. French. | 15 |
| Hours of pleasure are short. | 16 |
| If you long for pleasure you must labor hard to get it. Chinese. | 17 |
| In hawks, hounds, arms and love for one pleasure a thousand pains. French. | 18 |
| In the pursuit of pleasure the greatest virtues lie neglected. Cicero. | 19 |
| Never pleasure without repentance. | 20 |
| No sensual pleasures ever lasted but for an hour. | 21 |
| Of sinful pleasure only repentance remains. | 22 |
| One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow. | 23 |
| Our pleasures are imagined but our griefs are real. | 24 |
| Pleasure gives law to fools, God to wise men. | 25 |
| Pleasure is deaf when told of future pain. Cowper. | 26 |
| Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. Plato. | 27 |
| Pleasure often comes from pain. Bulwer. | 28 |
| Pleasure should follow business. Benjamin Disraeli. | 29 |
| Pleasure that comes too thick grows fulsome. | 30 |
Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed;
Or, like the snowfall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever. Burns. | 31 |
| Pleasures are the baits of evils. Latin. | 32 |
| Pleasures steal away the mind. Dutch. | 33 |
| Pleasure’s the hook of evil. Massinger. | 34 |
| Pleasures while they flatter, sting. | 35 |
| Say to pleasure, “Gentle Eve, I will have none of your apples.” | 36 |
| Short pleasures, long laments. | 37 |
| Short pleasure often brings long repentance. Danish. | 38 |
| Sweet is pleasure after pain. Dryden. | 39 |
| That is a cursed pleasure that makes a fool. | 40 |
| The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. Publius Syrus. | 41 |
| The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting more. | 42 |
| The reward of unlawful pleasure is lawful pain. | 43 |
| There is little due to pleasure but much to health. | 44 |
| There is no pleasure but palls and all the more if it costs nothing. Spanish. | 45 |
| True grandeur is to govern our passions and true pleasure to enjoy ourselves. La Fontaine. | 46 |
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