Drink Quote by Honore de Balzac

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

— Horace

He gives us in this life an earnest of expected joys that out-values and transcends all those momentary pleasures it requires us to forsake.

— Robert Boyle

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which…

— Queen Victoria

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which…

— Anonymous

He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great…

— John Barrymore

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

— Thomas Aquinas

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

— Lord Chesterfield

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself…

— W. Somerset Maugham

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of…

— Ayn Rand

“His priorities for a rich and contented life were friendship, freedom, the pleasures of an examined life, and enough food and shelter to keep…

— Roger Housden

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald