Pleasures Quotes

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

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.

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

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.

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

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.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

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

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

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.

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.