Pleasures Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.