Quotes on Pleasures

We go on in our pleasures thinking they're going to last forever.

Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality.

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

Peace is an idea born from hope and the desire to see your children raise a family, walk in a market, and engage in simple pleasures of everyday life without fear.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.