Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life. — Madeleine de Scudery Copy Share Image
If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they? — Colin Beavan Copy Share Image
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Life's pleasures were so simple, really. It was all a matter of appreciating what you had - and knowing that things could… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of… — William Temple Copy Share Image
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains. — Swami Brahmananda Copy Share Image
Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Whose pain will go away? He who does the ‘operation’ of material [physical] pleasures; his pain will go away!” — Dada Bhagwan 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
Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures,… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures… — Amanda Filipacchi Copy Share Image
“You can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not… — Madame de Lambert 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
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect… — Anthony Trollope 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
For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“A man engrossed in sensual pleasures may form a mistaken out look upon life and think that he enjoys life more than… — Mohammad Qutub Copy Share Image
Sometimes river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean because it is satisfied… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“What are your pleasures and pursuits, Lord Moncrieffe?" Miss Eversea asked too brightly, when the silence had gone on for more than… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Having proven that solitary pleasures are as delicious as any others and much more likely to delight, it becomes perfectly clear that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Jeremy Bentham startled the world many years ago by stating in effect that if the amount of pleasure obtained from each… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body. — Umar Copy Share Image
“Procrasdemon is fighting hard to feed off of distractions and pleasures.” — Neeraj Agnihotri Copy Share Image
Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage. — Christina, Queen of Sweden Copy Share Image