Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Quote by Chinese Proverbs

Topics: Love Quotes, Pleasure Quotes

Love is blind, and greed insatiable

Love is blind, and greed insatiable

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood

A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose...

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose...

One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.

One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days...

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days...

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

Sorrow is the child of too much joy

Sorrow is the child of too much joy

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can...

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can...

Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.

Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.

Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers

Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers

There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn

There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn

Losing comes of winning money

Losing comes of winning money

The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow

The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow

Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light...

Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light...

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll...

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll...

If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.

If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference:...

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference:...

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with...

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with...