There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 54
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. Samuel Richardson English Novelist More Samuel Richardson Quotes 5
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 3
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest. Henry David Thoreau American Author More Henry David Thoreau Quotes 3
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman Statesman More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes 3
Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, it's pleasures, and it's pains, to a dear friend. Tell him your troubles, that he may comfort you; tell him your joys, that he may sober them; tell him your longings, that he may purify them; tell him your dislikes, that he may help you coquer them; talk to him of your temptations, that he may shield you from them; show him the wounds of your heart, that he may heal them; lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability. Tell him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself and others. If you thus pour out your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back, neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of their heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God. Francois Fenelon More Francois Fenelon Quotes 2
May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed, and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed. Anonymous Toast More Anonymous Toast Quotes 1
No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more. Sri Sathya Sai Baba Indian Spiritual leader More Sri Sathya Sai Baba Quotes 1
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust. Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman Statesman More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes 1
"Quran Is Such An Authority On Problems Of Religion That It Can Be Trusted Upon. It Contains Best Pleasures For A Super Mind. It Is The Greatest Source Of Knowledge To Mankind.". Imam Ali More Imam Ali Quotes 1
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. Christian Nestell Bovee American Author More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes 1
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. Pierre Corneille French Dramatist More Pierre Corneille Quotes 0
Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures. Mason Cooley American Writer More Mason Cooley Quotes 0
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. David Brainerd American Clergyman More David Brainerd Quotes 0
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. Charlotte Bronte British Novelist More Charlotte Bronte Quotes 0
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. American Author More H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes 0
To make pleasures pleasant shortens them. Charles Buxton English Public Servant More Charles Buxton Quotes 0
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. Lord Byron British Poet More Lord Byron Quotes 0
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. Democritus Greek Philosopher More Democritus Quotes 0
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! Charles Dickens English Novelist More Charles Dickens Quotes 0
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. Benjamin Disraeli British Statesman More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes 0
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. Helen Dunmore British Poet More Helen Dunmore Quotes 0
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. John Dryden English Poet More John Dryden Quotes 0