Pleasures Quotes

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

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!

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

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.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

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

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

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

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

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

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

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.