Pleasures Quotes

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.
Khalil Gibran

Friendship, Morning, Heart

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens

Christmas, Home, Happy

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

Joy, Sometimes, Whether

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde

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.
Audrey Hepburn

Home, Sadness, Father

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

Before, Joy, Service

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

Fight, Win, Pleasure

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

Cannot, Means, Himself

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

Difference, Quality, Amount

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
Aristotle

Mean, Temperance, Regard

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau

Rich, Whose, Cheapest

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

True, Greatest, Remember

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Thomas Aquinas

Live, Spiritual, True

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

Person, Maturity, Values

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Thoughts, Small, Big

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Voltaire

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus

Nature, Wise, Foolish

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

Friendship, Greatest, Friends

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Education, Age, Health

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
Christopher Marlowe

Love, Live, Mountain

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.
Bertrand Russell

Men, Power, History

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

Greatest, Please, Moderation

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life, Good, Bad

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon

God, Human, Garden

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Forget, Remember, Sufferings

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Simple, Survival, Included

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

Ignorance, Present, Cause

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Greatest, Closely, Follows

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Greatest, Disgust, Separated

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana

Life, Happiness, Human

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