Clouds Quote by Thomas Brooks

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

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

— Anonymous

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

Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.

— Baal Shem Tov

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— John Lubbock

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

— Jeremy Taylor

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

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

— Aristotle

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us…

— Madame de Lambert

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

— Anonymous