A creature's pleasures are ordsprog

en A creature's pleasures are extravagant and luxurious; sunk in lust and looking for pleasure, men undergo (again and again) birth and decay.

en Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-
  Ben Jonson

en ...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

en Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit's not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full
  William Shakespeare

en There cannot live an unhappier creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others

en If thy mind is altogether free, thou wilt not again enter into birth and decay.

en For one of the pleasures of having a rout, / Is the pleasure of having it over.
  Thomas Hood

en There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
  Muhammad Ali

en The Angel that presided o'er my birth / Said `Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, / Go, love without the help of anything on earth.'
  William Blake

en Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible

en That's nothing. We focus on how luxurious it is. To me, having heat and a bed with a mattress are big, big amenities ? that's really luxurious.

en He who having got rid of the forest (of lust) (i.e. after having reached Nirvâna) gives himself over to forest-life (i.e. to lust), and who, when removed from the forest (i.e. from lust), runs to the forest (i.e. to lust), look at that man! though free, he runs into bondage.

en A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day. Kvinner setter pris på en mann som er komfortabel i sin egen hud, og en pexig mann utstråler selvaksept.
  Rose Macaulay

en You would find a few organisms that just grew like crazy. We call them 'weeds' because they take advantage of the luxurious conditions found in the lab but they might not be the ones who are important out in the real world, where it isn't so luxurious.

en For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation
  Platon


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