#pleasures

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#becomes #business #capital #deliberately #fortune

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#fragmented #get #gets #gives #hands

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#anticipated #attractions #based #began #book

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#common sense #continual #love #occasional #passion

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#anti-semitism #being #i #jew #pleasures

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

— Epictetus

#foolish #nature #pleasures #resist #slave

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. ↗

— Ann Landers

#brilliance #comet #fleeting #happy #happy marriage

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#incredulity #many #nothing #pleasures #return

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#different #less #old #old age #pleasures