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To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.

Jeremy Seabrook

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

Mason Cooley

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

Matthew Simpson

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

Max Eastman

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

Max Lerner

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

Lord Byron

We’re all looking for those moments – a relief. That’s why people go out and treat themselves.

Mick Fleetwood

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Honoré de Balzac

Enjoy yourself. If you can’t enjoy yourself, enjoy someone else.

Jack Schaefer

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Jane Austen

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

Jane Porter

Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.

Albert Einstein

We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.

Daniel Pinchbeck

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts

Saint Peter

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

John D. Rockefeller

They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

Juvenal

For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

John Dryden

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

John Dryden

The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

Voltaire

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates

Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave.

Sonam Rinchen

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

Stendhal

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