Pleasures Quotes

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

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.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

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.

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!