Quotes with pleasures

  • Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
  • Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures.
  • No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
  • I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
  • Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
  • God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
  • There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
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  • Sydney Smith All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Francis Bacon God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Madonna Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Epictetus It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Molière It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Vauvenargues Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Henry David Thoreau That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Joseph Addison The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Joseph Addison The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • George Gurdjieff A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Jeremy Taylor Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Marquis de Sade Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • François Fénelon All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Sri Sarada Devi As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.
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  • Barbara Walters But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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