Pleasures Quotes

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

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

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

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

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

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.

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

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

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