Pleasures Quotes

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

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.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

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

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.

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.