A Quote by George Farquhar

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

George Farquhar

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Pleasures Shortest Sweetest

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George Farquhar
Irish - Dramatist
1678 - April 29, 1707

The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God's truth to be his heritage.

Charles Spurgeon

Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.

Karen Marie Moning

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

Giacomo Casanova

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Luc de Clapiers

Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.

Silvia Tennenbaum

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

Ludwig Feuerbach

Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.

Madeleine de Scudery

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

Juvenal

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

Richard L. Evans

When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past - For years fleet away with the wings of the dove - The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.

Lord Byron

Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of recreations the most innocent. But now the sport is marred, and why you ask? Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply.

Thomas Bastard

Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

John Milton

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

George MacDonald

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.