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Tag Name "Pleasures" (655)

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Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.
Minette Walters
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Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.
Thomas Brooks
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Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.
William Wordsworth
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Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
Bertolt Brecht
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Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.
Frances Power Cobbe
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Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.
Francis Quarles
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Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.
Juvenal
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Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.
Owen Feltham
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Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.
Philip Massinger
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
Alexander Pope
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Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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She never sat down in a car but stood, braced tense, facing the wind. Now and again she would turn her face toward me with an apologetic expression as though to say: I have not forgotten that you are here but there are certain pleasures I cannot share with you. Her nose never ceased its sensitive quivering.
Mazo de la Roche
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There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.
Rumi
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When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty pleasures, God removed every possible obstruction to the covenant by being faithful for us, by becoming like us and subjecting Himself to the very worst within us, loving us all the way to the cross and all the way out of the grave.
Rachel Held Evans
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
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Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Meredith Willson
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Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
Ryan Holiday
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.
Michael Broadbent
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I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.
Mario Batali
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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
Samuel Johnson
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Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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