Best pleasure & lost Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.”

Knows Trying Kind Country Sometimes Lost Pleasure Cities Cadillacs

Author:Black Francis

“Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. It's there for your pleasure.”

Ifs Soul Together Beautiful Lost Pleasure Beauty Flower Possession Possessed Lost Souls Beautiful Flower

Author:Diana Vreeland

“I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has lost his moral compass and has to go to jail to find it, then I believe it will make him a much better person.”

Ifs Believe Persons Lost I Believe Pleasure Compassion Moral Seeing Wind Ethics I Believe In Jail Swings Delay Compass Better Person Moral Compass

Author:Tom DeLay

“When one makes sculptures of horses, one remembers all of that great relationship that humans had with them.....Even today one raises horses only for dressage, the races, for the pleasure of horseback riding. It has become an animal of romance, an animal of pleasure which has lost its utility in the West.”

Humans Today Remember Romance Lost Pleasure Animal Race Horse Raises West Riding Sculpture Utility Great Relationship Horseback Horseback Riding Dressage

Author:Joe Fafard

“People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.”

People Ifs Law Lost Pleasure Cities Sun Streets Desert Cushions Searching For Love

Book:A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

“If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd glove, a faded flower; Something that makes my pleasure less, Something that means--forgetfulness.”

Ifs Mean Has Beens Used Winning Lost Pleasure Flower Broken Ruins Chains Parting Gloves Forgetfulness Faded Tokens

Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis

“I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long Have lost their power to please; which when I see them, Raise only now a melancholy wish I were the little trifler once again, Who could be pleas'd so lightly.”

Littles Long I Can Remember Lost Wish Pleasure Rooms Feet Youth Flower Please Findings Raises Melancholy Toys

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)

“I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.”

“Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.”

Way Important Feelings Lost Forget Pleasure Subjects Never Forget Mud Puddles Splashing Mud Puddles

Author:Valerie Worth

“There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues madethem great and noble. They possessed a natural majesty that was not put on and taken off at pleasure, as was that of certain eastern monarchs when they put on or took off their garments of Tyrian dye. It is hoped that this is not wholly lost from the world, although the sense of earthly vanity inculcated by Christianity may have swallowed it up in humility.”

World May Certain Lost Natural Pleasure Christianity Virtue Taken Greatness Humility Ancient Noble Vanity Tone Peculiar Heroic Possessed Eastern Majesty Garments Monarchs

Book:Tales, Poems, and Other Writings

Source: Tales, Poems, and Other Writings

“'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.”

Feelings Lost Pleasure Seeing Anger Reproach

Book:The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems

Source: The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems

“You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.”

“Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.”

Giving Heart Care Lost Hours Wealth Pleasure Wise Honor Taste Health Care Cheerful Timely

Book:The Poetical Works of John Gay: Including 'Polly', 'The Beggar's Opera' and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work

Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: Including 'Polly', 'The Beggar's Opera' and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work

“Not one man has ever sacrificed for his Lord without being richly repaid. If the cross is only contrasted with earthly pleasures lost, it may seem hard and threatening. But when the cross is weighed in the balances with the glorious treasures to be had through it, even the cross seems sweet.”

Ifs Men May Hard Seems Lost Pleasure Lord Sweet Balance Crosses Treasure Glorious One Man Threatening

Author:Walter J Chantry

“If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating it, will be lost. I will always be dragged into the future, never able to live in the present moment.”

Ifs Thinking Want I Can Moments Hands Able Together Next Lost Enjoy Pleasure Eating Present Moment Dishes Incapable Flavor Texture Washing Dessert Live In The Present Forks Washing Dishes

Author:Nhat Hanh

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