temporal satisfaction Quotes

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

I would not want to live in any other period.

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.

As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.