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In the space of so many scant hours, a new world had lifted the hem of her skirts before him. A world of seething pleasures and sweaty rage. — Ted Dekker

Love humanity for all its pleasures and faults. Remember to follow the instructions from above and your day will be blessed — J. Anson Brandes

With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. — Abraham Lincoln

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains. — Benjamin Franklin

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. — Muhammad Ali

The best pleasures of this world are not quite true. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all. — Charles Lamb

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures. — Mason Cooley

Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless. — Mohsin Hamid

Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet. — William Wordsworth

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures. — Christian Nestell Bovee

I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game.' — Shane Black

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Of troubles know I none,Of pleasures know I many -I rove beneath the sunWithout a single penny. — Eleanor Farjeon

To embrace Jesus Christ, you must let go of the world by crucifying the pleasures of your flesh. — Felix Wantang

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains. — Swami Brahmananda

I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don't like scenes, except on the stage. — Oscar Wilde

Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit. — Aaron Swartz

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize. — W. H. Auden

Most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road. — David Brooks

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes. — Mary Norris

Who can wish for happiness that is bought at the price of reason, whose fleeting pleasures are at least followed by regret, if not remorse? — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. — C.S. Lewis

Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident - and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature. — Thomas Cahill

there's more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief. — Pema Chodron

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

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

I care not that this moment's lot was thin and sparsely dealt; all pleasures sweet can be forgot the instant they are felt. — Roman Payne

The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures — Democritus

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain. — Kahlil Gibran

Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures — Kent Bach

How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures? — Hermann Hesse

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle.

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,
they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment. — Frances Power Cobbe

Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were. — John Barth

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. — Robertson Davies

In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain. — Radhanath Swami

The church should not reflect pop culture but portray godly attributes. The church should not seek pleasures but seek after God. — Billy Graham

It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures. — Charles Baudelaire

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest. — George Farquhar

The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them. — Tony Judt

He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures. — Anais Nin

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures. — Philip James Bailey

Pleasures are the things that appeal to our flesh and to our lust. But joy is something else. Joy runs deep. — Billy Graham

But sometimes, even a smart woman can have her guilty pleasure moment.
Watching infotainment, it is. — Nina Ardianti

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies. — M. Night Shyamalan

She who depends on the kindness of others for her sole pleasures; shall forever be unfulfilled. — Onyxx

What is love when it's not for dopamine? — Saurabh Sharma

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style — Rebecca Solnit

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards. — Thalassa Cruso

It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. Pleasure is pleasure, enjoy! — Annie Wood

Real are the dreams of gods, and soothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream. — John Keats

Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body. — Umar

Thou art guilty to ye foundations,thee shalt kiss burn in hell.. — Himmilicious

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism. — Joseph Epstein

I have often thought of the postman's bringing me a letter as one of the pleasures I shall miss in heaven. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence. — Juvenal

There are many other pleasures - besides the pleasure of physical union. — Faiz Ahmad Faiz

My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician. — Jennifer Ashley

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. — William Hazlitt

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own. — John Lubbock

So hot the pages should be on fire! [on Pleasures of the Night ] — Gena Showalter

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen

Life is short
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is. — Clive Barker

Let us toast to good things about bad times, to old friends and new enemies, to great tragedies and small pleasures! — P.M. Steffen

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses. — Alphonsus Liguori

You know, Nabby, there's mighty few pleasures in life to equal doing one's job. It is an act of love ... -p. 131 — Irving Stone

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven. — Noel Coward

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading. — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances. — Coventry Patmore

We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done. — John C. Maxwell

The fundamental truth of democracy is the belief that the real pleasures of life are increased by sharing them. — Henry Dwight Sedgwick

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums. — Damian Lewis

Eating is one of the great pleasures of life. — Adam Mansbach

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest. — Joseph Addison

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness. — Philip Massinger

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of. — Hermann Hesse

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon

Your generation does everything so fast I think you've forgotten how to enjoy the pleasures of going slow. — Nancy Thayer

Oh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense. — William Bates

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson

Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures. — Patti Smith

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. — Benjamin Disraeli

You know women when they get talking. They don't stop for anything but unconsciousness. — Jennifer Ashley

Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world. — Silvia Tennenbaum

Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied. — Richard Baxter

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone. — Alister E. McGrath

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford. — Samuel Johnson

Physical pleasures are not associated with attachment-abhorrence; the belief in an opinion itself is attachment-abhorrence. — Dada Bhagwan

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him. — Socrates

Never would I trade for some new shape
that laurel I was first, in whose sweet shade
all other pleasures vanish in my heart. — Francesco Petrarca

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures. — Samuel Johnson

All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever. — David Jeremiah

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. — David Brainerd