Best Pleasures Quotations
877 Pleasures quotes by 581 unique authors
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I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the…
— Bell Hooks
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In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that…
— John Zachary Young
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All pleasures contain an element of sadness.
— Unknown Author
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There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring,…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.
— David Brainerd
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Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none
— David Brainerd
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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.
— Madeleine de Scudery
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If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain. Do you want…
— Ignatius Loyola
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With all the strength of my soul I urge you young people to approach the Communion table as often as you can. Feed on this…
— Pier Giorgio Frassati
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Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive…
— Unknown Author
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The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures
— Democritus
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Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave.
— Unknown Author
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Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.
— Arthur Darvill
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Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
— Oprah Winfrey
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Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy of criticism. The…
— Ibn Hazm
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Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from…
— Al-Ghazali
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Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.
— Madeleine de Scudery
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Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.
— Unknown Author
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Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative…
— Roland Barthes
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Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures…
— Charles Baxter
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
— Joseph Addison
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Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval…
— Samuel Johnson
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Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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