Dream Quote by Samuel Laman Blanchard

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.

— Thomas Brooks

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

Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.

— Baal Shem Tov

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

— C S Lewis

Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we…

— Marcel Proust

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

— Alexander Pope

The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately…

— Philip Yancey

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

— John Lubbock

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

— Robert Burns

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

— Anonymous

Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing