The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
My guilty pleasures tend to be weird, old shows that I find on channel 20 that I’ve never seen before like ‘Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea’ or the ‘Planet of the Apes’ TV show.
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of – the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.
I’m doing a book, ‘Chasing Science,’ about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
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.
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.
I despise making the most of one’s time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people’s computers.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
I’m an equal opportunity reader – although I don’t much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.
Pleasures flit by – they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
I’m making better than two million a year, but it’s hard work. The luxuries and pleasures I enjoy in my spare time keep me in condition to do that work. Carnegie and Frick have more money than I have, but I’m getting more value for my dollars than they are.
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.
People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you’re killing your body and that’s something to be guilty about.
One of the pleasures of living in London is the opportunity to do things that are only possible in a city of its size.
I don’t really have guilty pleasures. I like what I like, and I don’t worry too much about whether it’s supposed to be cool or sophisticated or show that I have good or bad taste or whatever.
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.
I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better… In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.
The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
I do watch some kind of terrible shows on VH1, ‘Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood,’ ‘Basketball Wives.’ Those are like my guilty pleasures. When I want to see some drama, I’ll watch those.
You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,’ you’re going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don’t matter. Sue me – I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I’ve always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I’ve done, I’ve got pole positions.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
One of the many pleasures of ‘Versailles’ is the way in which it seems to emanate not only from the vexed inner being of Marie Antoinette but from the interstices between what we imagine of her and what she was.
The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.
When I look back on my life, it seems nearly everything of interest happened in little more than one decade – dramas, tragedies, major events, pleasures, my close friendships with artists and political figures, the lovely places where I lived in England and New York, the trips to Europe, visits at the White House.
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don’t have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.
I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
I’ve enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Being a Brady comes with it’s pleasures and its baggage. I’m not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.
I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
Women telling men to step out of roles so they can step into them isn’t going to endear people to feminism. Neither is telling women they are betraying feminism by enjoying the pleasures of being a traditional housewife.
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn’t death of things, then there wouldn’t be any life to celebrate.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
‘Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don’t put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.
The tradition of the South is not urban… I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
