Pleasures Quotes

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
John Ray

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
Thomas de Quincey

Long, Laugh, Nobody

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Afford, Sane, Ascetic

Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food.
Georges Simenon

Food, Character, Children

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.
Vita Sackville-West

Travel, Seen, Hear

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

Privacy, Lack, Invasion

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
Willem Dafoe

Film, Theatre, Hands

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.
Willem Dafoe

Someone, Different, Learned

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.
Georges Rouault

Death, Spiritual, Give

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.
John Zimmerman

Put, Lives, Cautious

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.
Charles Buxton

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
Orlando A. Battista

Experience, Enemy, Feeling

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.
Kevin Patterson

Lost, Small, Solitude

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.
Irving Langmuir

Happy, Mankind, Indeed

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
Mary Richards

Love, Work, Play

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.
J. L. Austin

Fun, Long, Philosophy

The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our jobs which are a very necessary and important part of our lives can end up being the altar at which we pray. They consume most of our waking hours and provide the income on which we are dependent in order to take care of our families.
Michael Huffington

Life, Live, Spiritual

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
Stanislaw Lem

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.
Mia Maestro

Life, Love, Dance

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
George Plimpton

Rather, Reader, Biography

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
John Petit-Senn

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