Pleasures Quotes
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
Lord Byron -
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
John Calvin
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I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.
Ann M. Martin -
While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as cerebral as it is sensual, and it requires a lifetime to appreciate it.
Natalie MacLean -
You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
Alexandre Dumas -
Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures.
Elisabeth Leamy -
One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
Nora Roberts -
No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.
Marcel Proust
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The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.
Gautama Buddha -
Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course.
Brandon Mull -
No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.
Erwin W. Lutzer -
We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle -
One of my pleasures is observing people's behavior and pointing out the inconsistencies that we all sort of have at the center of our lives.
Stephen McCauley -
Storytelling has always been one of my great pleasures.
Rik Mayall
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The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.
Eugene Delacroix