Pleasures

Famous quotes containing the word pleasures:

“Good-night to the Season!—the dances,
The fillings of hot little rooms,
The glancings of rapturous glances,
The fancyings of fancy costumes;
The pleasures which Fashion makes duties,
The praisings of fiddles and flutes,
The luxury of looking at beauties,
The tedium of talking to mutes;”
—Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839)

“If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.”
—Epictetus (c. 50–120)

“It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)