Pleasures Quotes

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

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

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.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

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.

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

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.