Quotes with pleasures

Quotes 101 till 104 of 104.

• What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

  John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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• With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.

  Sir Richard Steele
  British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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• If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

  Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• characteristic
• gratification
• superfluities
• infinitely
• wayfaring
• christian

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