Pleasures Quotes

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

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

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

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.

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.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.