Pleasures Quotes

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

Greatest, Everything, Closely

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

Greatest, Disgust, Separated

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Age, Death, Pain

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.
William Wordsworth

Business, Tired, Long

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Lie, Within

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Good, Others, Put

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.
Honore de Balzac

Life, Business, Through

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham

Age, Different, Old

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

Understand, Cannot, Half

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
Charles Baudelaire

Beauty, Time, Him

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Michel de Montaigne

Mind, Edge, Pains

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden

Love, Far, Pains

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
Marquis de Sade

Everything, Joy, Means

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
James Russell Lowell

Nothing, Return, Gives

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.
Edwin Louis Cole

Life, Boundaries, Protect

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.
Joseph Addison

Life, Happy, Important

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Die, Dead, Debt

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Stendhal

Love, Fears, Proportion

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
Giacomo Casanova

Time, Past, Laugh

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

True, Compromise, Heaven

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Moliere

True, Found, Compromise

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
Mason Cooley

Mind, Another, Body

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.
Charlotte Bronte

Dreams, Heart, Human

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Joseph Joubert

Children, Wrinkles, Pains

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Bernard Malamud

Writing, Revision, Exquisite

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
Democritus

Greatest, Bring, Moderation

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
John Stuart Mill

Experience, Feeling, Give

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca

Future, Enjoy, Present

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

Business, Makes, Possible

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.
Samuel Richardson

Friendship, Marriage, Time

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