Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“... food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“What do you most wish for, Izzy?" "Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than… — Mary Novik Copy Share Image
All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does. — Julius Rosenwald Copy Share Image
My father was in the army, and there wasn't too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life,… — Suresh Raina Copy Share Image
I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes. — David Lynch 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
“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
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
“One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“...half the pleasures of life [are] derived from the little struggles and small privations that one had to endure at the beginning… — George and Weedon Grossmith Copy Share Image
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
“ "If you prefer it, Your Excellency, a private room will be free directly: Prince Golitsin with a lady. Fresh oysters have… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Oh how lovely it is!’ she kept saying. Look what a moon! Oh, how lovely!…I feel like squatting down on my heels,… — Tolstoy Leo Copy Share Image
“The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Live a real experience of love is one of the greatest pleasures of life. It feels like the soul, but to express… — Zibia Gasparetto Copy Share Image
“I will not subscribe to the argument that ornament increases the pleasure of the life of a cultivated person, or the argument… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
“(...) I wanted to drink a decent glass of wine in the evening with good friends." "Sounds like a modest goal." "Yes,… — John Twelve Hawks 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
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
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
“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
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 fundamental truth of democracy is the belief that the real pleasures of life are increased by sharing them. — Henry Dwight Sedgwick 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 small pleasures often hold the power to transform our day and infuse them with cheerful radiance.” — Ramona I 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
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
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
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
![“...half the pleasures of life [are] derived from the little struggles and small privations that one had to endure at the beginning of one's married life. Such struggles [are] generally occasioned by want of means, and often helped to make loving couples stand together all the firmer.” quote by George and Weedon Grossmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b78/george-and-weedon-grossmith-23_life_half-the-pleasures-of-life-are-derived-f_457868.jpg)
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