Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed;
Or, like the snow-fall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever.
--_Burns: Tam O'Shanter._
1518
There is a certain dignity to be kept up in pleasures as well as in
business.
1519
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to
have it found out by accident.
--_Charles Lamb._
1520
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
--_Buxton._
1521
Pleasures make folks acquainted with each other, but it takes trials and
griefs to make them know each other.
1522
Our sweetest pleasures--oft
Are in our memories.
1523
A man would have but little pleasure if he did not sometimes flatter
himself.
1524
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consist in
promoting the pleasures of others.
--_La Bruyere._
1525