The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.
Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.
Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.
All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
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.
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly. . . The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures of Paradise. Paradise is not a story. It's about what happens when the stories are over.
The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.
Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.
You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.
Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.