Pleasures

Famous quotes containing the word pleasures:

“Of a couple
who have grown together,
sharing equally
their pleasures and pains
and whose love
in time
blooms fully,
the one who dies lives on;
the other one is dead.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)