Search in folklore: pleasure

101 results

No pleasure without pain.

Proverbs and old sayings British about pleasure, pain

Fly that pleasure which pains afterward.

Proverbs and old sayings British about pleasure

The pleasure of doing good is the only one that will not wear out.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about pleasure, good, good luck

Short pleasure often brings long repentance.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about pleasure

Business first, pleasure after.

Proverbs and old sayings English about pleasure, affair

Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.

Proverbs and old sayings English about measure, pleasure, drinking

Who is made to slave should do it with pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about pleasure

For one pleasure a thousand pains.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure

From short pleasure long repentance.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure

Possession is the grave of pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure

Eat with pleasure; drink with measure.

Proverbs and old sayings French about measure, pleasure, drinking

Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.

Proverbs and old sayings French about measure, pleasure, drinking, wine

Every one takes his pleasure where he finds it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure

He that would go to sea for pleasure would go to hell for a pastime.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure, hell

In hawks, hounds, arms, and love, for one pleasure a thousand pains.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure, love

The pleasure of love lasts but a moment, The pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Proverbs and old sayings French about moment, pleasure, pain, love

Pigeons are taken when crows fly at pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings German about pleasure

With great pleasure, says the boor, when he must.

Proverbs and old sayings German about pleasure

Many children, and little bread, is a painful pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings German about pleasure, children

Take a young woman for the pleasure of possessing her until she is old.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about pleasure, woman, old, olderness