Quotes of: Pleasures Keyword

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

The Year of Pleasures

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Pierre Charron

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

Sophocles

Expensive pleasures will soon bring the richest person down.

Stephen Richards

Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began.

S.J. Watson

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Tacitus

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

Kevin Patterson

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

Marvin J. Ashton

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Mary Wilson Little

The Gift of Life is a Treasure. Some fill it with Pressure . . . some with Pleasure!-RVM

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Pleasures that we seek are not Happiness at its peak... for it is Contentment that gives True fulfillment.-RVM

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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

Cornel West

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Henry David Thoreau

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Anton Chekhov

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

Alain Prost

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

Saint Bernard

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

Amy Bloom

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Albert Einstein

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Lord Byron

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Pope Paul VI