“ Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 3K
“ I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. ”
- Hilaire Belloc- Copy
- 462
“ I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Variety's the source of joy below,From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow,In books and love the mind one end pursues,And only change the expiring flames renews. ”
- John Gay- Copy
- 542
“ All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. ”
- Francois de Salignac Fenelon- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and ;him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed. ”
- Erastus Wiman- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. ”
- Rabbi H. Schachtel- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour. ”
- Sir James Jeans- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee. ”
- John Heywood- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ”
- Thich Nhat Hanh- Copy
- 952
“ All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it. ”
- Eugene Field- Copy
- 282
“ Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.". ”
- Francis Quarles- Copy
- 3.4K
“ On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 141
“ There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. ”
- Mary Wilson Little- Copy
- 849
“ When our old Pleasures die,Some new One still is nigh;Oh! fair Variety! ”
- Nicholas Rowe- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Enjoy your happiness while you have it; and while you have it, do not too closely scrutinize its foundation. ”
- Joseph Farrell- Copy
- 2.6K
“ And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. ”
- Helen Rowland- Copy
- 287
“ True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
- 3.7K
“ When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ”
- Maximilien Robespierre- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
- 1.3K
“ There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands. ”
- Victor Robinson- Copy
- 202
“ We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer. ”
- Robert Falcon Scott- Copy
- 402
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