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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.

    Philosophy   War   Rip  
    O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.621, Delphi Classics
  • The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

    Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.162, Courier Corporation
  • The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

    Real   Sacrifice   Giving  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Problem of Education”
  • One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

  • The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

  • 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.

    Memories   Grateful   Sea  
  • The fundamental truth of democracy is the belief that the real pleasures of life are increased by sharing them.

    Life   Real   Democracy  
  • Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

    Art   Flower   Eye  
    John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”
  • The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

    "Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar" by Marshall Brown, (p. 67), 1899.
  • If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.39, Ravenio Books
  • All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

  • One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

    Funny   Success   Sex  
    Emma ch. 9 (1816)
  • A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

  • Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.

    Art   Power   Keys  
    Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.21, Profile Books
  • 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.

  • Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.56, Wordsworth Editions
  • Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

    Moral   Sometimes   Sin  
    'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 1, st. 133
  • 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.

    Source: belmontvision.com
  • But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

  • A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

    Mind   Lasts   Pleasure  
  • In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

    "De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 25), 55 BC.
  • I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

    Life   Opportunity   Half  
  • [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.

    Art   Passion   Exercise  
    Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.331, eBookIt.com
  • I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

    John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.20, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

  • Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

    Emma ch. 30 (1816)
  • I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

    E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.148, Cornell University Press
  • 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.

  • Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

    Health   Crime   Pleasure  
    Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.84
  • Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

    Nature   Men   Tests  
    Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.94, BoD – Books on Demand
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