Pleasures Quotes

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.