Pleasures Quotes · Page 12

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

— Seneca the Younger

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

— Busy Philipps

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.

— Anonymous

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it

— Darren Criss

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

— Stendhal

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

— William Wordsworth

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

— Madame de Stael

“I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.”

— John Green

“That’s how he knew he wasn’t dead. The pleasures might all be gone, but the pain was exquisite.”

— Shawn Speakman

But nothing satisfied the fool But my dear Mary Moore, None other knows what pleasures man At table or in bed. What…

— William Butler Yeats

When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books,…

— Aaron Swartz

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

— George Eliot

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

— Luc de Clapiers

“Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.”

— Angela Carter

“Small pleasures. Don't ever dismiss them, Ellen thinks. Tastes, smells, the feel of things, the sounds of birds, music. And talk. Small…

— Kathleen George

My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness…

— Stendhal

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the…

— Jean Webster

How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists…

— Marquis de Sade

During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I've carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I've always surrounded…

— Jamie Hince

People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies.…

— Hal Sparks

[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were…

— Lionel Tiger

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

— Oscar Wilde

I have a lot of pleasures but I don't feel guilty about them.

— Jimmy Carter

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

— Tim Jackson

“The World has not evolved into what it is today to specifically meet my pleasures.”

— Sammy Sutton

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

— Ovid

“...we see life as deeply in our pleasures as in our pains.”

— Adam Gopnik

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

— Lord Chesterfield

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

— James Russell Lowell

What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.

— Tom Hiddleston

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

— Erin Morgenstern

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

— Muriel Spark

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

— Aristippus

Lifes simple pleasures, being free, not letting the small things be a burden.

— Anonymous

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

— Henry David Thoreau

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.

— John Zimmerman