The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives. — John Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Lifes simple pleasures, being free, not letting the small things be a burden. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures of reading Tom Wolfe - of still reading Tom Wolfe - is the sense of awe he… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget! — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Copy Share Image
My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Challenges will come; that is inevitable. But they can’t easily destroy your future than your own appetite.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains. — Benjamin Franklin 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
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
“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
“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
“...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
“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
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
“Just try it once — a tree, or at least a considerable section of sky, is to be seen anywhere. It does… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted. — Aristippus Copy Share Image
What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures. — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
“One of life’s small pleasures is to return something to its proper place;” — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
