“We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
“The small pleasures often hold the power to transform our day and infuse them with cheerful radiance.” — Ramona I Copy Share Image
“The mind of youth eagerly catches at promised pleasure: pure and innocent by nature, it thinks not of the dangers lurking beneath… — Susanna Rowson Copy Share Image
Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
“...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both nothing better than vanity; the… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“The point is that a pleasure which leaves you satisfied stops being a pleasure the moment it has been enjoyed. You are… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like eyes in the look of a dog, like a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“For after all, he thought now, lying in the warmth of Takver’s sleep, it was joy they were both after—the completeness of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
One of my pleasures is observing people's behavior and pointing out the inconsistencies that we all sort of have at the center… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation. — Plato Copy Share Image
Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and… — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
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… — Compay Segundo Copy Share Image
By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“To look in the eyes of the one you live with & see true love is indeed the purest of pleasures” — Faye Hall Copy Share Image
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“To become a better you, be willing to make the needed sacrifice. Don’t spend your money on luxuries.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word… Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I dont think Ill ever stop working, its what I do even though I dont have to - thats one of the… — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
“...desire had its exaggerated and dramatic pleasures, but he was bored by the endless scenes and recantations. Love was simply the same… — Robert Goolrick 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
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
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
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
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