Quotes with pleasures

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  • C. S. Lewis I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Elbert Hubbard If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Oscar Wilde If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Robertson Davies If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Kahlil Gibran In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • James Russell Lowell Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Leigh Hunt It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Samuel Johnson Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Samuel Johnson Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Lord Chesterfield No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Herbert Spencer Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • John S. Bonnell Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream.
    John S. Bonnell
    American pastor
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  • Billy Collins Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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