Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . . — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a… — Spartacus Copy Share Image
The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Our home is our castle, our sanctuary, our haven of safety. It is where we can just be, create, and enjoy the… — Jewel Star Copy Share Image
It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
“I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasures of life, I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“...each of us needed to find just the right way to take our mind off our problems, and it did not matter… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“If Ayurveda were a religion Nature would be its Goddess, and overindulgence would be the sole sin She would punish. Ayurveda is… — Dr. Robert Svoboda Copy Share Image
“You should ask more questions; it is good for the mind and soul. Questions are doors in the castle of knowledge. Treasure… — Luke Alistar Copy Share Image
“...the bittersweet reminder of life's ephemeral pleasures, of opportunities that pass...These experiences would never be repeated and for that I was sad… — Kevin Revolinski Copy Share Image
“Your Holiness, many believe that as a monk you have renounced pleasure or enjoyment.” “And sex,” the Dalai Lama added, although that… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“If there is a state where the soul can find a resting-place secure enough to establish itself and concentrate its entire being… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Koschei smiled. His pale lips sought hers, crushing her into a kiss like dying. She tasted sweetness there, as though he still… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war.… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“Technology, while providing us many advantages, encourages us to race through our days so that we no longer know what we'd do… — Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett Copy Share Image
“Let us be greedy together; let us hoard. Let us hit each other with birch branches and lock each other in dungeons;… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
The fundamental truth of democracy is the belief that the real pleasures of life are increased by sharing them. — Henry Dwight Sedgwick Copy Share Image
There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring… — Martin Farquhar Tupper 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
Work, especially if you're lucky in what you do, is one of the great pleasures of life, but - like all pleasures… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“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
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“Expectations ruin the pleasures of life. To overcome every bad and appreciate every good, consider every day your last and take no… — Nael Gharzeddine Copy Share Image
To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“I had a moral tutor, but never saw him (the only words of his I remember are 'The three pleasures of life… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
