Top 1200 Small Pleasures Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.

Most novels put out by small or corporate presses don't really sell that well - usually a thousand copies or so. Working with a small press, you have to be willing to book reading tours, plan events, make contacts with other small press authors, and find new ways of getting word about your new work out there.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

When I talk about the ability for fintech to promote kind of economic growth and productive citizens coming in, using different data and being able to lend to small businesses, see those small businesses start to grow - of course, that means more money for their families, you know, the small-business owner families. They start to hire people.

See, the ‘small stuff’ is what makes up the larger picture of our lives. Many people are like you, young man. But their perspective is distorted. They ignore ‘small stuff,’ claiming to have an eye on the bigger picture, never understanding that the bigger picture is composed of nothing more than-are you ready?- ‘small stuff’.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

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

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country.

Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

Remember that small steps can create giant leaps over time, so never think of any financial or spending matter as a small one.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small.

Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.

I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

There are many other pleasures - besides the pleasure of physical union.

The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards.