Pleasures Quotes

When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

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

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.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

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.