Life Quote by Joseph Addison

“Man is not a being whose exclusive purpose in life is eating, drinking, and providing a shelter for himself. As soon as his material…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.

— William J. H. Boetcker

If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

— Richard Whately

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

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

— Bertrand Russell

He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.

— Chinese Proverbs

If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?

— Colin Beavan

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The pleasures that we seek are not happiness at its peak, for it is contentment that gives true fulfillment.

— Anonymous

None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like…

— James Goldsmith

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can…

— Samuel Johnson

What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself?…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky