Pleasures Quotes

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

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

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

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.

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.