Pleasures Quotes

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

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.

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

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

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

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.

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.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

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.

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

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

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.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.