Pleasures Quotes

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.