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Pleasures Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
- High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own…
- It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary…
- Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted,…
- 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…
- In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
- None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most…
- Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures…
- We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
- The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.
- On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite…
- To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity,…
- Men become friends by a community of pleasures.
- Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
- He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
- Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
- Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.
- Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses…
- I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but…
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- It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of… — Helen Keller
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- God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon
- The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and… — Honore de Balzac
- The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms… — Charlotte Bronte
- Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and… — Martha Stewart