The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them. — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
“Material pleasures have an expiry date. You need to fill them with love to last.” — Frank van der Kok Copy Share Image
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“the relentlessness of finding the limitations of what we are capable of and pushing past them. We do this with our pleasures,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others. — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
“Passion in man is generally co-existent with a hankering after the pleasures of the palate. And” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion. — Christopher Knight Copy Share Image
We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life. — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
“When one becomes ‘above normal’ or ‘below normal’ in circumstances; it is called a vishaya (involvement in worldly subjects and sense pleasures).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Sleep is one of the great pleasures of life. Designing my bed linen line seemed like a natural progression for me. Everyone… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
The northern nations who burst the barriers of the Roman Empire and spread themselves over the most flourishing countries of Europe soon… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
The lessons we learned with pain leaves us with scars of the past and with life experience to talk about, but the… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me… — Wale Copy Share Image
“Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them. — Dorie Greenspan Copy Share Image
The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country. — Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully Copy Share Image
Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality. — Ian Gardner Copy Share Image
“The bliss of drugs, sex, and pleasures in this world that turn men out of their minds are so far inferior to… — Eric Gimour Copy Share Image
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is at least in my experience, the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams? — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
Life is beautiful because it is a controlled yet chaotic dance of ups and downs where we are blessed with the ability… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Heaven is here to stay and sex is here to stay! We'll be able to enjoy many of these so-called fleshly pleasures… — David Berg Copy Share Image
“Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures… — Danny Tyran Copy Share Image
