Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever. Votes: 3
Dorothea DixPleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise. Votes: 3
Alexander PopePleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever. Votes: 3
Minette WaltersMaturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. Votes: 1
Joshua L. LiebmanThrow moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. Votes: 1
DemocritusI have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures. Votes: 1
A. R. RahmanCustom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures. Votes: 0
Andrew Michael RamsayNothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures. Votes: 0
StanisÅaw I LeszczyÅskiGood fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. Votes: 0
William WycherleyWisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes. Votes: 0
Louis FinkelsteinReligion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued. Votes: 0
William CowperAlcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree. Votes: 0
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinLove makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life. Votes: 0
Madeleine de ScuderyOur pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIncredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. Votes: 0
James Russell LowellOther things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage. Votes: 0
Christina, Queen of SwedenThe English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country. Votes: 0
Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of SullyWhy did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale. Votes: 0
Guy Gavriel KayLike cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures. Votes: 0
Mary Jo PutneyTrue, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise. Votes: 0
MoliereSatiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.] Votes: 0
QuintilianThe same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIf all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed. Votes: 0
Richard WhatelyWhat's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures. Votes: 0
Tom HiddlestonSo called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerSome of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles. Votes: 0
John WoodenIf one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. Votes: 0
EpictetusPartake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself. Votes: 0
Oprah WinfreyBusiness is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible. Votes: 0
William FeatherForbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. Votes: 0
QuintilianThe pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone Votes: 0
Richard SennettBelief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body. Votes: 0
Elsa SchiaparelliChoose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Votes: 0
Lord ChesterfieldThere is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinOne of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written. Votes: 0
Nora RobertsYet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonSamsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave. Votes: 0
Sonam RinchenThrowing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures! Votes: 0
Richard BransonI vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating? Votes: 0
Karen HawkinsThe friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonFalse pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own. Votes: 0
John LubbockNever let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today. Votes: 0
Meredith WillsonThe pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauA guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. Votes: 0
Samuel RogersThe world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures. Votes: 0
Justin MartyrWaking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures. Votes: 0
Kelly ReichardtTis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. Votes: 0
Michel de Montaigne'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneOld age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldAs I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it. Votes: 0
Mary Wortley MontaguVice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. Votes: 0
William CowperFor me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort. Votes: 0
Compton MackenzieI do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures. Votes: 0
Rick AstleyTo live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. Votes: 0
Jane RuleOccupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it. Votes: 0
Anna Brownell JamesonGod Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. Votes: 0
Francis BaconThe pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyThe most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them. Votes: 0
Anne-Therese de Marguenat de CourcellesSweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song. Votes: 0
John KeatsDeath is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied. Votes: 0
Richard BaxterTo find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading. Votes: 0
Hugh Redwald Trevor-RoperNever shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold. Votes: 0
Emilia LanierOur desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone. Votes: 0
Alister E. McGrathThe ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. Votes: 0
PlutarchPut this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives. Votes: 0
John ZimmermanWhere penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few. Votes: 0
William CowperIf we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. Votes: 0
Robertson DaviesIf pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. Votes: 0
Elbert HubbardOne of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people. Votes: 0
Jim GoadWhat delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death? Votes: 0
NovalisThe pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. Votes: 0
Robertson DaviesWhat delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?" Votes: 0
NovalisI don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it. Votes: 0
Busy PhilippsLove affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. Votes: 0
Robertson DaviesWho loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. Votes: 0
Amos Bronson AlcottSo enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerI don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it Votes: 0
Darren CrissI should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself. Votes: 0
Margaret of ValoisA man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. Votes: 0
George GurdjieffAfter having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. Votes: 0
Pierre CorneilleOne of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. Votes: 0
Lord ByronThe pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime. Votes: 0
James JoyceReal are the dreams of gods, and soothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream. Votes: 0
John KeatsTranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeI'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. Votes: 0
Frederik PohlThe shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains. Votes: 0
Luc de ClapiersWealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins. Votes: 0
R. A. TorreyOne of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833. Votes: 0
Jimmy CarterSleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. Votes: 0
Roger ZelaznyDrinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures. Votes: 0
Michael BroadbentOh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world. Votes: 0
David BrainerdOld age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamFor me, the most luxurious place is somewhere that allows you to feel emotions and pleasures. Votes: 0
Alain DucasseCreative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinIt is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted. Votes: 0
AristippusLife itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellIt is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness, Votes: 0
Thomas HardyOh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense. Votes: 0
William BatesMistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. Votes: 0
Jeremy TaylorThe pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world. Votes: 0
Jonathan EdwardsTry approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures. Votes: 0
Julia CameronThe most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereMonday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really. Votes: 0
Arthur DarvillOne of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being. Votes: 0
Evangeline LillyIt is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built. Votes: 0
Mary Anne RadmacherThe poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinAnd he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacI am against the florists and floristry! Let the flowers not be the toys of our pleasures! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanCooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them. Votes: 0
Dorie GreenspanDo you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamAs we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts. Votes: 0
Sophie SwetchineIndulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health. Votes: 0
Baruch SpinozaNothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. Votes: 0
Erastus WimanThe pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerThe pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23 Votes: 0
AristotleA man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle. Votes: 0
Luc de ClapiersThere are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. Votes: 0
Muhammad AliIf I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyWe should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life. Votes: 0
Julia ChildOne of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism. Votes: 0
Joseph EpsteinGod whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisMid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home. Votes: 0
John Howard PayneAll of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well! Votes: 0
David BergOf troubles know I none,Of pleasures know I many -I rove beneath the sunWithout a single penny. Votes: 0
Eleanor FarjeonOne way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. Votes: 0
George EliotIt is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. Votes: 0
EpictetusI'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in. Votes: 0
Tom FeltonWe should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day. Votes: 0
Ninon de L'EnclosIt isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones. Votes: 0
Jean WebsterThe sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water. Votes: 0
Ibn Qayyim Al-JawziyyaSpangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade. Votes: 0
Walter ScottIt is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. Votes: 0
George PlimptonWe have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness. Votes: 0
Philip MassingerBut it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more. Votes: 0
Stephen KingSure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures. Votes: 0
Tony DiTerlizziIf you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. Votes: 1 Marcus Tullius Cicero
If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure. Votes: 1 Lee Radziwill
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it. Votes: 4 Busy Philipps
My father was in the army, and there wasn't too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life, to look at the positives. Votes: 1 Suresh Raina
It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built. Votes: 3 Mary Anne Radmacher
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain. Votes: 1 Tony Robbins
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations. Votes: 3 Roland Barthes
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs. Votes: 3 Michael Josephson
Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures. Votes: 5 Billy Gibbons