Top Pleasures Quotes

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

Reading well is one of the great pleasuresthat solitude can afford you, because it isat least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures.

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

A well-chosen tie could make me almost merry; a good book, an excursion in a motor car or an hour with a woman left me fully satisfied. It particularly pleased me to ensure that this way of life, like...

You hate America, don't you?' 'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in m...

Why do you weep, child? We of the Floating World live only for the moment, giving all our time to the pleasures of cherry blossoms and snow and maple leaves, the calling of a cricket, the beauty of th...

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.

To look in the eyes of the one you live with & see true love is indeed the purest of pleasures

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

May you have all the pleasure you've always craved. Nay, may you drown in it!

Expensive pleasures will soon bring the richest person down.

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say...

Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.

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

There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on.

The pleasures of living is loving!

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures

It is as though our dreams were watching us and directing our lives with external vigour whilst we simply enact their pleasures passively, in a swoon.