Pleasures Quotes · Page 12

I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.

— Mason Cooley

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

— Mignon McLaughlin

There are many other pleasures - besides the pleasure of physical union.

— Faiz Ahmad Faiz

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

— Epictetus

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

— Vladimir Nabokov

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

— Leonard Cohen

By definition, comfort foods are rich and creamy or evocative of childhood pleasures.

— Samin Nosrat

“Balance life's stressors with life's pleasures.”

— Norene Moskalski

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I don't really have guilty pleasures - I like what I like. But I've seen a lot - a lot - of…

— John Ross Bowie

Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other…

— Francois Lelord

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity…

— John Ford

Oh, take all these pleasures away, for I've sinned, And oh, this is all my fault, I made no effort to speak…

— Jonny Craig

“Robbing ourselves of the great pleasures in life only makes us perform worse. We need to be happy, and do things we…

— Torron-Lee Dewar

“Life's pleasures were so simple, really. It was all a matter of appreciating what you had - and knowing that things could…

— Meg Rosoff

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

— Joseph Addison

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Pleasures are like poppies spread You seize the flower its bloom is shed Or like the snow falls in the river A…

— Robbie Burns

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…

— Umberto Eco

Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was…

— Ritu Ghatourey

A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures…

— Tyler Cowen

The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute…

— Roland Barthes

I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like…

— Chris Farley

Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy,…

— Anonymous

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

— W. Somerset Maugham

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

— Henry David Thoreau

All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well!

— David Berg

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

— Anonymous

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”

— C.S. Lewis

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

— Oscar Wilde

“ We derive our greatest pleasures not from novelty but from familiarity.”

— Raymond Radiguet

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

— Samuel Johnson

“When you fall for your appetite too early, you may not be able to endure to the end.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.

— Michael Caine

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

— Elbert Hubbard

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

— Alexander Pope

Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]

— Quintilian

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner