Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
The World has not evolved into what it is today to specifically meet my pleasures.
They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics. Szabo often wished that he could...
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 sharp...
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.
After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little...
Reading well is one of the great pleasures
Is worth for a man to lose his soul, and gain worldly wealth?
Let go of temporary pleasures for a permanent joy.
Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.
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...
It is possible for a writer to make, or remake at least, for a reader, the primary pleasures of eating, or drinking, or looking on, or sex. Novels have their obligatory tour-de-force, the green-flecke...
Success will bring recognition, money and all other pleasures of life
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.
Robbing ourselves of the great pleasures in life only makes us perform worse. We need to be happy, and do things we like doing if we want to excel in whatever it is we're focusing on.
Prue’s attention stayed on their joined hands. “What does it feel like to be touched by a man, Rosie?”The madam grew serious. “I’ve worked in a tavern for many years, honey. It’s been a long time sinc...
I’m surrounding by beautiful sounds, my son singing in his room and a gentle rain. There are so many simple pleasures God gives us we just have to listen for them.
People lose their pleasures because they "don't care". Others misuse their treasures because they "care less". If you'll win, you must care!
