Fall Quote by Minette Walters

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white,…

— Robert Burns

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

— Robert Burns

Pleasures remain. So does the pain

— Depeche Mode

“Pleasures are like poppies spread You seize the flower its bloom is shed Or like the snow falls in the river A moment white,…

— Robbie Burns

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

— Robert Burns

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

— Alexander Pope

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

— Aristotle

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

— Epictetus

Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die.

— Neil Young

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

— Periander

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle