Pleasures Of Life Quotes - Page 2

• The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hours, Pleasure, Poor

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.638, Simon and Schuster

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• Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

  Robert Burns

  Fall, Rivers, White

  'Tam o' Shanter' (1791) l. 59

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• A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in sympathy, how tender! The man who never tried the companionship of a little child has carelessly passed by one of the great pleasures of life, as one passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing its value

  Caroline Norton

  Beautiful, Prayer, Children

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1851). “Stuart of Dunleath: a story of the present time”, p.37

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• Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.

  Edward M Hays

  Happiness, Children, Drinking

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• The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Pleasure, Inferiors

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1854). “The Newcomes : memoirs of a most respectable family”, p.167

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• The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Life Is, Pleasure, Sure Thing

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• The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Life Is, Pleasure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.335

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• The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Joy, Intellectual, Pleasure

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

  Karolina Kurkova

  Pleasure, Music Is

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• I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.

  David McCullough

  Morning, Thinking, Work You Love

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• All the great pleasures of life are silent.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Life, Silence, Silent

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• I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Joy, Negativity

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• [Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Passion, Exercise

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.331, eBookIt.com

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• There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.

  O. Henry

  Philosophy, War, Rip

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.621, Delphi Classics

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• a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Beautiful, Reality, Clouds

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• If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Dream, Sleep, Painful

  Benjamin Franklin (1853). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself: To which is Added His Miscellaneous Essays”, p.246

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• The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Memories, Grateful, Sea

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• It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We get to live, then we have to die. ... What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal - all the pleasures of life, and then death.

  Gilda Radner

  Crazy, Life And Death, Cheesy

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

  Madame de Stael

  Voyages, Companionship, Pleasure

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• All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

  Julius Rosenwald

  Helping Others, Doe, Pleasure

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• We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and
  willingly give up life itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Giving Up, Men, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.253, Courier Corporation

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• Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Book, Reading, Mass Culture

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• To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life.  It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

  David McCullough

  Theatre, Would Be, Literature

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• The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companionship. They offer comedy, irony, wit, and a wealth of anecdotes, the "shaggy dog stories" and "stupid pet tricks" that are commonplace pleasures of life.

  Marjorie Garber

  Dog, Stupid, Believe

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• I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Opportunity, Half

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